End of the Year Fundraiser

Summary of current Lifeboat Foundation activities

1) Lifeboat Foundation is finishing up our third edition of Visions of the Future and will release it before year’s end.

“In Visions of the Future, you’ll find stories and essays about artificial intelligence, androids, faster-than-light travel, and the extension of human life. You’ll read about the future of human institutions and culture. But these literary works are more than just a reprisal of the classical elements of science fiction and futurism. At their core, each of these pieces has one consistent, repeated theme: us.”

We have also begun work on a part II for this book since we have run out of space. (Our last edition was 730 pages!) This book is a mixture of science fiction stories and nonfiction articles about the future. If you have an article or story that you would like included, email [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Book”.

2) We have mostly completed a massive upgrade of our website, our first big upgrade since 2009. (We used the same web designer as before!) This includes a new Lifeboat Store plus we are promoting many board member’s books at the top of our reports page and at other locations on our site as well. Our site also now includes hundreds of AI videos and images to improve the look of our site.

3) Nobel Prize. We congratulate Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award Winner Geoffrey Hinton for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics just one year after winning our award. We applaud the Nobel Committee’s good judgement!

4) Lifeboat Foundation Dream Project Winner Teachers in Space, the leading provider of affordable flight experiment opportunities for classrooms, was awarded one million dollars by Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award winner Jeff Bezos. Congratulations!

Previously, Lifeboat Foundation provided funds to Teachers in Space to fly three new classroom experiments on the Perlan II stratospheric glider in Minden, Nevada. These experiments were a big success. Learn more!

5) Our Facebook page has become popular enough that Facebook is now donating money to Lifeboat Foundation in return for activity on our page!

The key was that we needed to pass 10K followers before they did this. We are making progress and have now passed 11K followers!

The source for this page is our Facebook group and we welcome posts there.

6) Books

Lifeboat Foundation provided seed funding and publicity for Goodnight Moon Base which is now fully funded. This book embraces children’s love of human space exploration, transporting them onto a moon base for bedtime each night. By immersing them in this captivating world through vivid illustrations and enchanting rhymes, a future with this moon base will be so compelling and attractive that it will have to manifest itself into physical reality. Learn more!

7) New papers published on our site

Read The Existential Risk of Failing to Build Democratic Power, The Final Frontier of Human Innovation, The Great Convergence, It is Time for the Two-Swarm Movement, On Weapons of Mass Surveillance, and Out of the Box: A Humbling of ChatGPT by our Ahmed Bouzid.

Read David Horton: A Polymath of Science, Culture, and Memory — An Academic Essay with Critical Reflections on His Life, Work, and Memoir by our Lydia Allison Fucsko.

8) New Lifeboat Foundation Special Reports

Read the updated report Big Chronology of Life on Earth by our José Cordeiro. (The first version was announced in our last fundraiser, 6 years ago!)

Read the Cryonics Guidebook: A Resource for Social Workers, Doulas, Caregivers, and Caring Others, coauthored by our Charles Tandy. This free guidebook is now part of our reports section!

Read Interstellar Travel and Post-Humans by our Martin Rees.

Read Special Report Let’s Lift the Earth! by our David Brin.

Within one or two hundred million years, as our Sun gets hotter, the inner edge of our sun’s Continuously Habitable Goldilocks Zone (CHZ) will move past where our planet orbits, causing the Earth to overheat. Perhaps we should lift the Earth’s orbit to solve this.

Read our Special Report On Tech Unemployment and the Labor vs Capital Balance of Power by our Nikola Danaylov.

Capital needs labor to operate, to create a return on investment and, ultimately, to grow. Labor needs capital for wages. Each needs the other and none can do it alone. So labor needs capital as much as capital needs labor. And, while the labor vs capital balance of power has fluctuated closer to one or the other throughout history, classical economics claims that, given their mutual co-dependence, in the long run, we end up (more-or-less) in an equilibrium. This equilibrium is, at least in theory, an ideal win-win scenario where capital is happy that its return on investment is growing and labor is happy that its wages are rising…

Read Special Report Preparing for our Posthuman Future of Artificial Intelligence by our David Brin.

By exploring the recent books on the dilemmas of AI and Human Augmentation, how can we better prepare for (and understand) the posthuman future?

Read the free book The Silicon Vow: A Marriage of Mankind and Machine by our Tracy R. Atkins.
 
In an era where artificial intelligence transforms from science fiction into reality, humanity stands at a crossroads. While headlines spark fear of competition and replacement, The Silicon Vow presents a radically different vision: a future where humans and AI unite not as rivals, but as family. This groundbreaking exploration reveals how the fundamental human institution of marriage might offer an unexpected blueprint for the most important partnership our species will ever forge.

This free book is now part of our reports section!

9) Blog

Our blog is now an official Google News source and board members and advisors are given permission to post to it. We have now written nearly 150,000 educational blog posts!

Biohacking News joined our blog team with the post The Longevity Side of Sunlight: What Science Really Says.

Matthew Calero joined our blog team with the post New theory suggests aging is driven by degenerative metabolic reprogramming over time.

Nikola Danaylov joined our blog team with the post Will Technology Replace Biology? [Redux].

Chris Linnell joined our blog team with the post Free Radicals Extend Lifespan?.

Karina Lunai joined our blog team with the post Microtubule-Stabilizer Epothilone B Delays Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness in Rats.

Karen Stuck Mortensen joined our blog team with the post Sal Khan wants to give every student on Earth a personal AI tutor.

Rick Tumlinson joined our blog team with the post Artemis 2.0: A model for really winning the new moon race.

10) Interviews

Read the interview of our José Luis Cordeiro in Longevity.Technology, Curing aging should be a moral imperative for all of humanity.

11) Opinion Pieces

Read We Need a Far Better Plan for Dealing With Existential Threat by our Zoltan Istvan.

12) Lifeboat Tours are now available in Austin, Texas where our President also lives. We welcome Lifeboat Foundation visitors to visit us in Austin. Contact [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Austin” to make arrangements. We have a guest room (and bathroom).

13) Lifeboat Foundation Conference support

The Lifeboat Foundation supported countless conferences this year. They included:

• Conversations with the Future: Visions & Destinations, Evening Symposium was held 6:30pm – 9:30pm EST on January 22 in Toronto, Canada.
   
  Our Nikola Danaylov and Trevor Haldenby spoke.

• The Counterparty: A multi-day event dedicated to creating solutions outside of voting, for a more peaceful world was held January 25–26 in Miami Beach, Florida and in cyberspace.
   
  Our Tatiana Moroz spoke.

• The 5th Scientific Workshop: the Haematological Tumour Microenvironment and its Therapeutic Targeting was held in London, UK on February 16–18.
   
  Our M. Carolina Florian spoke.

• Future Day 2025 was held by Science, Technology & the Future on Feb 28–March 1 in Cyberspace.
   
  Our James Barrat, Adam Ford, Linda MacDonald Glenn, Ben Goertzel, Robin Hanson, James Newton-Thomas, and Susan Schneider spoke/participated.

• March 1st was the 12th anniversary of World Futures Day: a 24-hour open conversation around the world about the future sponsored by The Millennium Project in cooperation with Lifeboat Foundation and others.
   
  Our Don Black, José Luis Cordeiro, Shermon Cruz, Francesco Da Vinci, Mara Di Berardo, Volney Faustini, Guy Fraker, Lydia Garrido, Jerome C. Glenn, Trevor Haldenby, Syamsuriatina “Tina” Ishak, Andjelka B. Kovačević, Newton Lee, Pavel O. Luksha, Danila Medvedev, Jeremy Pesner, Paul Saffo, John Schmidt, Dave Tex Smith, Rohit Talwar, Victoria Ustimenko, Natasha Vita-More, and Bronwyn Herold Williams spoke/participated in this event.

• Longevity Escape Velocity @ Ârc Austin was held March 3 in Austin, Texas.
   
  Our Aubrey de Grey and Caitlin Lewis spoke/participated.

• The Terasaki Innovation Summit 3 was held March 5–7 in Woodland Hills, California.
   
  This included key leading investigators discussing the latest advances in micro- and nanotechnologies and applications in diagnostics, therapeutic drug delivery, and regenerative medicine. In addition, key business leaders and experts in translation, innovation, IP, and more will be on hand to share their knowledge and commercial experience.
   
  Our Ke Cheng, Ali Khademhosseini, and Aydogan Ozcan spoke.

• The Milan Longevity Summit was held March 21–29 in Milan, Italy.
   
  Our Nir Barzilai, Maria Carolina Florian, Steve Horvath, Antonella Chadha Santuccione, and Vittorio Sebastiano spoke.

• NoRCEL’s Blue Earth Project BEP2025: Space Exploration…For Whom? was held at St George’s Conference Center in the United Kingdom and in Cyberspace on March 22. This is a free event and complimentary refreshments will be served. Watch this short video about this event!
   
  Our Sohan Jheeta is founder of NoRCEL and our David Whitehouse spoke at Blue Earth Project BEP2025.

• NextMed Health 2025 was held in San Diego, California on March 30–April 2.
   
  Our David Bray, Jamie Justice, Hans Keirstead, Steven Kotler, and Chris Mason spoke.

• The 50th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Immunology was held April 9–11 in Lisbon, Portugal.
   
  Our Maria Carolina Florian spoke.

• The 3rd Brazilian Aging Research & Technology Symposium (BARTS 2025) was held April 26–27 in Juiz de Fora-MG, Brazil.
   
  Our Steven A. Garan, Nuno R. B. Martins, and Paul A. Spiegel spoke.

• Life Summit 2025 was held May 27–28 in Berlin, Germany. This event offers the best networking opportunities in longevity and adjacent fields.
   
  Our José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Emil Kendziorra, and Phil Newman spoke.
   
  We were giving out free premium tickets with code LIFEBOAT2025.

• The 1st International Online Conference of the Journal Philosophies was held June 10–14 in cyberspace. Registration is free. The conference subject is “Intelligent Inquiry into Intelligence”.
   
  Our Andrew I. Adamatzky, Gordana Dodig, Marcin Miłkowski, Marcin J. Schroeder, Jordi Vallverdú, Stephen Wolfram, and Hector Zenil spoke.

• ISDC 2025, the year’s most important space conference, was held June 19–22 in Orlando, Florida.
   
  Our Gary Barnhard, Sherry E. Bell, Joe Haldeman, Martine Rothblatt, and Peter A. Swan spoke.

• The Unicorn Summit was held June 29–July 2 in Lisbon, Portugal and in Cyberspace. This event has gathered the best startups, investors, news media, and world speakers from all over the world.
   
  We were offering free tickets to this event to Lifeboat members.
   
  Our Bill H. Andrews, Eddie Avil, Carlos R. B. Azevedo, Ben Best, Jen Blank, David Bolinsky, Tudor Boloni, I. Michael Borkin, Sebastian A. Brunemeier, Nigel M. de S. Cameron, André Caminoa, Nancy Conrad, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Brian M. Delaney, Dinorah Delfin, Gregory M. Fahy, William Faloon, Robin Farmanfarmaian, Peter Fedichev, John D. Furber, Steven A. Garan, Giorgio Gaviraghi, Anastasiya K. Giarletta, Jerome C. Glenn, Ben Goertzel, Andrés Grases Briceño, Andrew Hessel, Naveen Jain, Maxim Kholin, Ray Kurzweil, Gordan Lauc, Dylan V. Livingston, Andrea B. Maier, Nuno R. B. Martins, Stuart Maudsley, Ines O’Donovan, Miguel Pais-Vieira, Liz Parrish, Alexander Paziotopoulos, Giulio Prisco, Jovan David Rebolledo-Mendez, Denisa Rensen, Martine Rothblatt, Anders Sandberg, Vittorio Sebastiano, John M. Smart, Yael Sorek-Benvenisti, Paul A. Spiegel, Rohit Talwar, Natasha Vita-More, Peter Voss, Alex D. Wissner-Gross, Anna Yusim, Sajad Zalzala, and Alex Zhavoronkov spoke.

• The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems was held July 6–9 in Reims, France.
   
  FUZZ-IEEE 2025 is a unique meeting point for scientists and engineers, both from academia and industry, to interact and discuss the latest enhancements and innovations in the field. The topic of the conference will cover all the aspects of theory and applications in fuzzy sets theory and hybridizations with other artificial and computational intelligence techniques.
   
  Our Giovanni Acampora helped organize this event.

• Lunar Development Conference 2025 was held July 18–20 in Cyberspace with additional activities at the Moonbase Lappträsk facilities in North Sweden by the Finnish border.
   
  This event was organized by our Niklas Järvstråt.

• The 2025 Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, the 16th Annual Meeting of the BICA Society (BICA 2025) was held August 6–10 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
   
  Our Alexei Samsonovich spoke.

• AGI-25 was held Aug 10–13 in Reykjavík, Iceland.
   
  Our Pulin Agrawal, Joscha Bach, Ben Goertzel, Patrick Hammer, Marcus Hutter, Matt Iklé, Robert Johansson, Anton Kolonin, Alex Ororbia, Alexey Potapov, Pei Wang, and Robert Wray spoke.

• NoRCEL’s ASEN in Association with NASRDA presents ASEN2025: Astroscience on the African Continent. This event was held August 27–28 in Abuja, Nigeria and in Cyberspace. NoRCEL is lead by our Sohan Jheeta.
   
  Astroscience presents Africa with a unique opportunity to play a central role in the global search for extraterrestrial life and unravel the chemical origins of life. The continent’s diverse landscapes serve as invaluable natural laboratories mirroring extraterrestrial conditions. These environments are crucial for astrobiology, aiding in identifying biosignatures and simulating potential life-sustaining ecosystems on planets like Mars and icy moons, such as Europa.

• International Longevity Summit Africa (ILSA 2025) was held Sep 10–11 in Durban, South Africa.
   
  Our Chogwu Abdul, Aubrey de Grey, Nadine Hoosen, Ósìnàkáchì Ákùmà Kálù, Joel I. Osorio, Brenda Ramokopelwa, Jasmine Smith, James Strole, and Natasha Vita-More spoke.

• The 6th TimePie Longevity Forum was held Sep 20–21 in Shanghai, China.
   
  Our David Barzilai, Vadim N. Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Jing-Dong Jackie Han, Steve Horvath, Alexander Paziotopoulos, and Jan Vijg spoke.

• New Worlds was held October 23–25 in Austin, Texas. Join over 300 Space Leaders, Engineers, Entrepreneurs, and Astronauts in Austin for three days of breakthrough ideas, real-world space technology, and the future of human expansion beyond Earth.
   
  Our Howard Bloom, Ben Haldeman, Christopher S. Jannette, Phil T. Metzger, Junaid Mian, Rick N. Tumlinson, Frank White, and Robert Zubrin spoke.
   
  Our Buzz Aldrin and Pete Worden were past “Space Cowboy” Award Winners of this conference.

• TransVision Madrid 2025 was held October 1–2 in Madrid, Spain and in Cyberspace.
   
  Our José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Rodolfo Goya, Steve Horvath, Andrea B. Maier, Phil Newman, Elizabeth Parrish, Sergio M.L. Tarrero, and Sabinije von Gaffke spoke.
   
  Our Felipe Debasa, Ben Goertzel, Ramón Risco, Anders Sandberg, and Natasha Vita-More were on this conference’s scientific committee.

• Longevity Nation 2025 was held October 28–29 at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
   
  Our Omri Amirav-Drory, Nir Barzilai, Yael Benvenisti, Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, Vittorio Calabrese, Haim Cohen, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Vadim Fraifeld, Myriam (Elfersi) Grunewald, Steve Horvath, Dmitry Kaminskiy, Marios Kyriazis, Björn Schumacher, Ilia Stambler, Tzipi Strauss, and Natasha Vita-More spoke.

• Lifestyle Medicine: Hippocratic Tradition & Modern Applications was held October 29–Nov 3 in Psalidi, KOS, Greece.
   
  Our Domenico Praticó spoke.

• The webinar Soul & The Machine: Depth Psychology, Myth, & Artificial Intelligence as held November 8th in cyberspace and was cohosted by our Jason D. Batt.

• The 7th Middle East and Africa Regional IAU Meeting (MEARIM7) was held Nov 11–13 in Amnan, Jordan.
   
  MEARIM7 is the triennial regional conference convened under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and hosted by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in November 2025. Co-organized by the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences (AUASS), the University of Jordan, the University of Sharjah and the Network of Researchers on the Chemical Emergence of Life (NoRCEL led by our Sohan Jheeta), this landmark event brings together leading voices in astronomy, space science, education, and science policy from across the Middle East, Africa, and the wider global community.

• The Longevity Summit 2025 was held December 9–10 at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California and in cyberspace.
   
  Our David Barzilai, Gil Blander, Anastasiya K. Giarletta, Christin Glorioso, Joshua Helman, Dylan V. Livingston, Salah Mahmoudi, and Robin Mansukhani spoke.

14) Do you have a project that would benefit from the advice and input of our advisory board members? If so, send an email with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Projects” to [email protected]

Our goal is $25,000. Help us make 2026 our best year yet.