Presentation
Title: Save Humanity
Subtitle: Introducing the Lifeboat Foundation’s Mission
Abstract: As technologies of unprecedented power emerge and
advance at an exponentially accelerating pace, these will soon vastly
increase the power of leading nations, leading corporations, and leading
individuals. Before too long, a set of emerging technologies
— Genetics,
Robotics/Artificial General Intelligence, Nanotechnology, and
Neurotech
— will make more power available than has ever been known
in human history. This power may be used by leaders for our benefit but
the same technologies that could raise standards of living and increase
healthspans also could enable a small group, or even a single
individual, to dominate the world — or willfully destroy it. Since
it is usually not feasible to slow down the advancement of dangerous
technologies, our foundation aims to do everything possible to speed up
the advancement of defensive technologies against all possible threats
— existential threats in particular.
Our
BioShield,
NanoShield, and
SecurityPreserver proposals are the start. We
advocate
and support the accelerated creation of
self-sustaining space colonies, on the Moon and in deep space, in
case of
a nanotech (or other) disaster that makes human life difficult or
impossible on Earth. We also support the creation of self-contained,
impervious, autonomous bunkers on Earth; these would use much of the
same technology as self-sustaining space colonies. We furthermore
stimulate the development of Earth-to-Orbit spacecraft needed to
execute, as and when needed, an emergency evacuation to space of as many
people as we can, providing humanity, literally, with a lifeboat to
space.
