Lifeboat Foundation

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  We now have quotes by Stephen Hawking on our Quotes page. Stephen was our Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award 2008 winner.

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  Read Singularities and Nightmares by David Brin.

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  Nanotechnology Now, the world’s most in-depth online resource for nanotechnology, supports Lifeboat Foundation with a free banner ad!

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  Our AIShield program is designed to protect against unfriendly AI (Artificial Intelligence).
   
  Why the first AGI is unlikely to be Friendly AI: Even if it was somehow possible with our primitive tools to design self-awareness into an AI, it is worth noting that the vast majority of AI under development is not being designed to be Friendly AI so we need to be prepared for the first AGI to not be inherently “friendly”.

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  We would like your input on our InternetShield program. As the Internet grows in importance, an attack on it could cause physical as well as informational damage. An attack today on hospital systems or electric utilities could lead to deaths. In the future an attack could be used to alter the output that is produced by nanofactories worldwide leading to massive deaths.

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  Now that our Scientific Advisory Board has reached an acceptable size, we are ready to fill out our staff and regular Board of Directors. The pay at this time won’t be high, but neither will your workload. Learn about our openings!

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  Scott Borg, Director and Chief Economist of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a Department of Homeland Security advisory group, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

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  Help us design Ark I — our fallback position in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail.

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  Sarah Marr, cofounder of the SENS Foundation, joins our Policy Board. Sarah’s extensive background includes everything from a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics to spending several years as a business and IT consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).

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  Wesley L. Harris, Charles Stark Draper Professor and Head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joins our Space Settlement Board.

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  Our Scientific Advisory Board completes a report that Richard Branson requests on anti-viral technologies for his aircraft.

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  Become famous! Submit contributions to the Lifeboat Foundation endorsed Journals of Personal Cyberconsciousness and Geoethical Nanotechnology.

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  Artist and animator Gina “Nanogirl” Miller joins our Media & Arts Board. Gina established Nanotechnology Industries in 1998. Nanotechnology Industries distributes information and provides resources about nanotechnology and related emerging technologies that will transform our world in positive ways.
   
  Gina has completed a 3-minute long animation that nicely illustrates the workings of Rob Freitas’ proposed programmable dermal display (essentially, a video-touchscreen nano-tattoo that reports real-time medical information to the user, as reported back by numerous nanorobots stationed in various locations inside the body).

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  Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia and Georgia.

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  Actor/director Edward James Olmos joins our Ethics Board and Media & Arts Board. Eddie has done everything from playing Admiral Adama on Battlestar Galactica to helping get communities cleaned up and rebuilt after the 1992 Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles.