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HQ Supervisor

The Lifeboat Foundation is looking to hire an HQ Supervisor. This individual will be trained by our president in Reno, Nevada USA and will be in charge of everything from financial paperwork to keeping our HQ (headquarters) clean.
 
The two main qualities that are being looked for are: 1) follow through 2) and a strong interest in “Safeguarding Humanity”.


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Lifeboat Foundation has launched the world’s FIRST bitcoin endowment fund. Learn more!


Our LifeShield Bunkers program now enables you to participate in a local LifeShield Bunker.


The New York Times says "The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit that seeks to protect people from some seriously catastrophic technology-related events. It funds research that would prevent a situation where technology has run amok, sort of like a pre-Fringe Unit."
 

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Latest News

Aug 16, 2020

Brett Hoffstadt, author of How to Be a Rocket Scientist, joins our Education Board.

Aug 16, 2020

Glenn A. Walsh joins our blog team with the post Female Astrophysicist Helped Build 1st Atomic Bomb.

Aug 14, 2020

Adam Sarwar, Founder of Crypto Space Cadet, joins our New Money Systems Board.

Aug 13, 2020

Read the 2020 edition of The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution.

Aug 13, 2020

Bob Sampson joins our blog team with the post Assembly of the World’s Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor Begins.

Aug 11, 2020

Myra Sehar joins our blog team with the post Chromosomes and DNA Packaging.

Aug 10, 2020

Justin Penrose joins our blog team with the post Why Silicon Valley Execs Are Investing Billions to Stay Young.

Aug 9, 2020

Malak Loeb joins our blog team with the post Space calendar 2020: Never miss another launch, meteor shower or celestial event again.

Aug 9, 2020

Sergio Tarrero joins our blog team with the post Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready.

Aug 7, 2020

Malak Loeb joins our Space Settlement Board. She is a Senior Legal Advisor specializing in International Business Law, International Space Law, and Space Policy.

Aug 6, 2020

Read Thriving in the Days of COVID-19.

Aug 2, 2020

Alexis Lewis, inventor of a Ring Habitat Station, joins our Space Settlement Board.

Jul 30, 2020

Paul D. Roberts, Partner at Be Courageous Innovation and Faculty of Exponential Innovation and Change at Singularity University, joins our Futurists Board.

Jul 30, 2020

Brent Nally, Cofounder of LEV Sciences, joins our Life Extension Board.

Jul 26, 2020

Josh Seeherman joins our blog team with the post Scientists propose plan to determine if Planet Nine is a primordial black hole.

Jul 21, 2020

Kevin LaGrandeur, Founding Board Member of the new journal AI and Ethics published by Springer, joins our Ethics Board.

Jul 18, 2020

Read our special report A Future of Fewer Words?: Five Trends Shaping the Future of Language by Lawrence Baines.

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Upcoming Events

Ending Age-Related Diseases 2020 will be held August 20–21 in cyberspace. This conference brings together the greatest minds from all over the world to work on the solutions to aging.
 
Our Alexandra Bause, Ryan Bethencourt, Judith Campisi, Keith Comito, Aubrey de Grey, Brian M. Delaney, Peter Fedichev, Steven A. Garan, Vadim Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Lewis S. Gruber, Andrei Gudkov, Lorna Harries, Steve Hill, Steve Horvath, Brian Kennedy, Michael Kope, Tim Maupin, Elena Milova, Joshua Mitteldorf, Alexey Moskalev, Matthew O’Connor, Robert Shmookler Reis, Paul A. Spiegel, Michael Rose, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking/participating. Learn more!

Undoing Aging 2020 has been moved to October 21-23 in Berlin, Germany. Our Tamir Chandra, Ke Cheng, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Vera Gorbunova, Michael Greve, Adiv A. Johnson, Jamie Justice, Jeanne Loring, and Wenyu Zhou will be speaking/participating.
 
Undoing Aging 2020 is not only open to the scientific community, but also welcomes startups, investors, the general media, and all interested members of the broader rejuvenation movement. The conference will feature a student poster session showing the work of innovative undergraduate and graduate students in the field of damage repair. Learn more!

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Featured Stories

  • We have College classroom tested coursework available which was developed by Gary Scott Danford, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • We now have a quote by Jeff Bezos on our Quotes page. Jeff is founder of Amazon and will soon be the richest person on the planet. (This is an important quote. Read it!)

  • Read the AsteroidShield program completed by our Scientific Advisory Board. Learn about the dangers caused by asteroids and proposed solutions to this problem.

  • The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen — and What to Do, the first book published by the Lifeboat Foundation, has been awarded the “Peer Reviewed & Approved for Science” seal of approval by the Washington Academy of Sciences.

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

  • Watch some dancing robots (worth about $4 million in total) on our Videos page.

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

  • Saskia Sassen, author of A Sociology of Globalization and Cities in a World Economy, joins our Human Trajectories Board. Saskia coined the term global city.

  • Read our SecurityPreserver program! Learn how we can have technologically-enabled “radical reciprocal accountability” and transparency protecting us from existential risks through information!

  • Jody Westby, CEO and Founder of Global Cyber Risk, joins our Cybercrime/Malcode Board. She chairs the American Bar Association’s Privacy & Computer Crime Committee and represents the ABA on the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists.

  • Jason Vaughn Clark, who created a monolithic comb drive nanomachine, joins our Engineering Board and Nanotechnology Board. This nanoscale motorized positioning device can be used in biological and engineering fields.

  • 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”.