Lifeboat News #281

• Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award: AI Safety
• The Longevity Summit 2025 Update
• Brain Health
• Books
• Papers
• Blog
• Growing Membership

Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award: AI Safety

The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them.
 
This year’s winner is Professor Roman V. Yampolskiy. Roman coined the term “AI safety” in a 2011 publication titled “Artificial Intelligence Safety Engineering: Why Machine Ethics Is a Wrong Approach”, presented at the Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, and is recognized as a founding researcher in the field.
 
Roman is known for his groundbreaking work on AI containment, AI safety engineering, and the theoretical limits of artificial intelligence controllability. His research has been cited by over 10,000 scientists and featured in more than 1,000 media reports across 30 languages.
 
Watch his interview on “The Diary of a CEO” that has already received over 11 million views on YouTube alone at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclrVWafRAI
 
The Singularity has begun, please pay attention to what Roman has to say about it!
 
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/guardian2025

The Longevity Summit 2025 Update

The Longevity Summit 2025 will be 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, Louise Hecker, Joshua Helman, Amy B. Killen, Dylan V. Livingston, Salah Mahmoudi, Robin Mansukhani, and will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://longevitygl.org/longevity-summit

Brain Health

Our Domenico Pratico will be speaking about “Olive oil and brain health: what is the evidence?” at the 7th International Yale Symposium on Olive Oil & Health being held December 4–7 in New Haven, Connecticut USA.
 
Learn more at https://web.cvent.com/event/172dc884-a5...09707a95

Books

Read “The Case for Nukes” by our Robert Zubrin at https://amzn.to/47zGxOv
 
Read “Considerations on the AI Endgame: Ethics, Risks and Computational Frameworks”, coauthored by our Roman V. Yampolskiy at https://amzn.to/4p2Zq3O
 
Read “Neuroscience Calisthenics: Hijack your Body Clock” by our Jean Fallacara at https://amzn.to/48AncON
 
Read “Planetary Foresight and Ethics: A Vision for Humanity’s Futures” by our Victor V. Motti at https://amzn.to/4a9wqTF
 
Read “Why Space?: The Purpose of People” by our Rick Tumlinson at https://amzn.to/3Xk1LeF

Papers

Read “Artificial Intelligence Authority Bias nell’analisi d’Intelligence”, coauthored by our Chiara Chiesa at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZCqEi...bU1/view
 
Read “The future of risk and insurability in the era of systemic disruption, unpredictability and artificial intelligence”, coauthored by our Roger Spitz at https://www.risk.net/node/7961666
 
Read “Mikhail ‘Misha’ Blagosklonny’s enduring legacy in geroscience: the hyperfunction theory and the therapeutic potential of rapamycin” by our David Barzilai at https://www.aging-us.com/article/206189/text
 
Read “Mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease”, coauthored by our Domenico Praticó at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...25000595
 
Read “Navigating National Security in the Digital Age: A Call to Action for both the Private and Public Sectors” by our David Bray at https://oodaloop.com/analysis/ooda-orig...sectors/
 
Read “Open Source and Energy Interoperability” by our Mike Dover at https://www.linuxfoundation.org/researc...rability
 
Read “Realistic Neural Networks” by our Lester Ingber at http://www.ingber.com/smni22_realistic_...nets.pdf
 
Read “Whatever Happened to Transhumanist Politics?” by our Tim Pendry at https://timpendry.substack.com/p/whatev...humanist

Blog

Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“2025 Nobel Prize in Physics Peer Review” by Chris Smedley at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/2025-...r-review
 
“A 500-million-year-old brain ‘radar’ still shapes how you see” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/a-500...-you-see
 
“A Definition of AGI” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/a-def...n-of-agi
 
“Age-Defying Health Benefits: New Research Unravels Secrets of the ‘Longevity’ Gene” by Magaly Santiago at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/age-d...ity-gene
 
“Autism and ADHD Brain Patterns Reveal Shared Biological Roots” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/autis...al-roots
 
“Cell and Gene Therapy” by Logan Thrasher Collins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/cell-...-therapy
 
“Chinese particle detector tests ‘portal to physics beyond the Standard Model’ — with outstanding results” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/chine...-results
 
“Diamond quantum sensors improve spatial resolution of MRI” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/diamo...n-of-mri
 
“DNA transcription is a tightly choreographed event: How RNA polymerase II regulates the dance” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/dna-t...he-dance
 
“Elon Musk Just Changed Everything at Tesla — And No One’s Talking About It” by Chris Smedley at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/elon-...about-it
 
“Executive Space Courses” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/execu...-courses
 
“Exploring the Symphony of the Human Mind” by Arthur Brown at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/explo...man-mind
 
“From Generative To Agentic: The New Era Of AI Autonomy In 2026” by Chuck Brooks at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/from-...-in-2026
 
“Function of the Spine” by The Neuro-Network at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/funct...he-spine
 
“Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/googl...robotics
 
“Grid cells create multiple local maps rather than single global system for spatial navigation, study finds” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/grid-...dy-finds
 
“How Neurons Feel Force: Uncovering the Physics of Touch” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/how-n...of-touch
 
“JWST may have found the Universe’s first stars powered by dark matter” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/jwst-...k-matter
 
“Kidney transplant breakthrough: Scientists create universal donor kidney to solve organ shortage” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/kidne...shortage
 
“Lasers made muon beams, no massive accelerator needed” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/laser...r-needed
 
“The Lunar Module Descent Engine: Apollo’s Most Complex Rocket Motor” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/the-l...et-motor
 
“Marijuana Use Surpasses Cigarette Smoking” by Laurence Tognetti at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/marij...-smoking
 
“Microplastics in the brain and how to reduce your exposure” by Biohacking News at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/micro...exposure
 
“Nanoflowers rejuvenate old and damaged human cells by replacing their mitochondria” by Magaly Santiago at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/nanof...chondria
 
“Neuralink implant patient gets ‘second pair of eyes’ thanks to motorized AI webcam — Insta360 Link 2 connected to MacBook gives father with ALS new lease on life” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/neura...-on-life
 
“New approach to gravitational wave detection opens the milli-Hz frontier” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/new-a...frontier
 
“New evidence suggests Einstein’s cosmic constant may be wrong” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/new-e...be-wrong
 
“Nobel Winners Just Proved the Universe Is Quantum — 2025 Physics Prize Explained” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/nobel...xplained
 
“Opinion: OpenAI bets on AMD chips as an alternative to Nvidia” by Rx Sobolewski at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/opini...o-nvidia
 
“Podcast with Chuck Brooks, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and President of Brooks Consulting International — Quantum Computing Report” by Chuck Brooks at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/podca...g-report
 
“Rare ADHD Gene Variants Linked to 15-Fold Higher Risk” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/rare-...her-risk
 
“Report From the 1st World Longevity Summit” by Biohacking News at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/repor...y-summit
 
“Samsung Begins Official Rollout of One UI 8 to Galaxy Devices” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/samsu...-devices
 
“Scientists are collecting toenail clippings to reveal radon exposure and lung cancer risk” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/scien...cer-risk
 
“Scientists Discover Food Molecules That Trick Cells Into Staying Young” by Magaly Santiago at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/scien...ng-young
 
“These Brain Implants Are Smaller Than Cells and Can Be Injected Into Veins” by Arthur Brown at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/these...to-veins
 
“This Awesome Periodic Table Shows The Origins of Every Atom in Your Body” by Michael LaTorra at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/this-...our-body
 
“This Common Nutrient Supercharges Your Cells’ Energy” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/this-...s-energy
 
“Understanding Optical Waveguides in AR Systems” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/under...-systems
 
“Until: We are optimistic that human whole-body reversible cryopreservation is solvable” by Logan Thrasher Collins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/11/until...solvable
 
“What Are Telomeres? How Longevity Science Can Help You Live a Longer Life” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/what-...ger-life
 
“Why the next Silicon Valley will be built around AgeTech” by Longevity at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/why-t...-agetech