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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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Sep 30, 2020

Greg Allison joins our blog team with the post Life On Venus — How Could It Have Gotten There?

Sep 29, 2020

Read Special Report Rise of the Machines: How, When and Consequences of Artificial General Intelligence by Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board member Richard J. Terrile.
 
Technology and society are poised to cross an important threshold with the prediction that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will emerge soon. Assuming that self-awareness is an emergent behavior of sufficiently complex cognitive architectures, we may witness the “awakening” of machines. The timeframe for this kind of breakthrough, however, depends on the path to creating the network and computational architecture required for strong AI.
 
If understanding and replication of the mammalian brain architecture is required, technology is probably still at least a decade or two removed from the resolution required to learn brain functionality at the synapse level. However, if statistical or evolutionary approaches are the design path taken to “discover” a neural architecture for AGI, timescales for reaching this threshold could be surprisingly short.

Sep 27, 2020

Double Academy Award winner Mark Sagar joins our Media & Arts Board. Mark was involved with the creation of technology for the digital characters in blockbusters such as Avatar, King Kong, and Spider-Man 2.

Sep 27, 2020

José Rafael Castro Fuentes, author of Galactosylated N-Glycans in the Choroid Plexus: A Possible Aging-Related Molecular Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer Disease, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.

Sep 26, 2020

Eamon Everall joins our blog team with the post NASA gearing up for epic asteroid-sampling maneuver next month.

Sep 25, 2020

Enter The SRF Design-a-Mask Competition!
 
We’re inviting all our supporters to submit designs for an official SRF mask. As well as being worn by SRF staff, these masks will be available in limited supply to anyone who’d like to support ending age-related disease and disability.

Sep 20, 2020

Read issue #217 of Lifeboat News!

Sep 19, 2020

Read Special Report Loosening the Linkages Between Language and the Land by Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board members Lawrence Baines and Gul Nahar.
 
Like any living thing, languages evolve over time. This paper examines the connections among sociocultural change, access to the Internet, and the fluctuations of English as a global language. English has begun to transcend geographical borders and sociocultural boundaries as its status as a national language, official language, or unofficial language grows.

Sep 19, 2020

Gul Nahar, coauthor of Loosening the Linkages Between Language and the Land with our Lawrence Baines, joins our Human Trajectories Board.

Sep 18, 2020

Biostasis 2020: The Annual Biostasis Conference will be held October 24–25, 2020 in cyberspace.
 
Our João Pedro de Magalhães, Greg Fahy, Emil Kendziorra, and Ramón Risco will be speaking. Learn more!

Sep 14, 2020

Jeremy Dylan Batterson joins our blog team with the post How cats see the world compared to humans.

Sep 13, 2020

Dirk Bruere joins our blog team with the post Elon Musk’s Neuralink — The Dark Side.

Sep 11, 2020

William E. Halal joins our blog team with the post Towards a Global Consciousness.

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Upcoming Events

Biostasis 2020: The Annual Biostasis Conference will be held October 24–25, 2020 in cyberspace.
 
Our João Pedro de Magalhães, Greg Fahy, Emil Kendziorra, and Ramón Risco will be speaking. Learn more!

Undoing Aging 2020 has become Undoing Aging 2021 and has been moved to May 13–15, 2021 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 2021 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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  • Watch robot quadrotors perform the James Bond theme on our Videos page.

  • Our World News page has information about CIA Says Hackers Have Cut Power Grid: Several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands.
     
    Read our InternetShield program for solutions!

  • Our LifeShield Bunkers program is a compliment to our Space Habitats program. It is a fallback position in case programs such as our BioShield and NanoShield fail globally or locally.

  • The Lifeboat Foundation worked with ten other organizations including the National Space Society and the Space Frontier Foundation to launch a new strategic alliance for space development and commerce named the Alliance for Space Development (ASD).

  • Watch a magnificent space compilation on our Videos page.

  • Aaron Balogun is one of our LinkedIn Managers. He is also Account Manager at Capitol Advantage and Director of Operations at Flanagan Consulting, LLC.

  • 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!)

  • Jaan Tallinn, cofounder of Skype, the only major IM client that both securely authenticates conversation participants and encrypts the communication, donates over $10,000 to Lifeboat Foundation.

  • Dante S. Lauretta joins our Space Settlement Board.
     
    Dante is Principal Investigator of OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer), a NASA asteroid study and sample return mission.

  • Having problems with suicide bombers, cyber hackers, and/or car bombs? Lifeboat Foundation has the solution! The Borg have joined our Counterterrorism Board! (This is worth a media mention!)

  • We have launched a triple partnership that includes the Lifeboat Foundation, Nanotech-Now, and The American Journal of Bioethics.
     
    The column editor for this partnership is Summer Johnson, executive editor of The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB).

  • Our ScientificFreedomShield program strives to protect scientists from obstacles that would prevent latter day Max Plancks from completing their research.

  • 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.

  • Learn that Moore’s Law has been replaced by a Virtual Moore’s Law that is accelerating and bringing the Singularity with it!