Lifeboat Foundation

The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards the Singularity. Lifeboat Foundation is pursuing a variety of options, including helping to accelerate the development of technologies to defend humanity such as new methods to combat viruses, effective nanotechnological defensive strategies, and even self-sustaining space colonies in case the other defensive strategies fail. We believe that, in some situations, it might be feasible to relinquish technological capacity in the public interest (for example, we are against the U.S. government posting the recipe for the 1918 flu virus on the internet). We have some of the best minds on the planet working on programs to enable our survival. We invite you to join our cause! Visit our site at https://lifeboat.com. The Lifeboat Foundation is working on a prototype Friendly AI at https://lifeboat.com/ai and also has launched the world’s first bitcoin endowment fund at https://lifeboat.com/ex/bitcoin. Visit our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboatfoundation. Watch our YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/LifeboatHQ. Read our book “The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen — and What to Do” at http://amzn.to/2CQzbKj. Interact with its author at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thehumanracetothefuture. We currently have a job opening for HQ Supervisor at https://lifeboat.com/ex/hq.supervisor

Website

https://lifeboat.com

External link for Lifeboat Foundation

Industry

Think Tanks

Company size

1,001-5,000 employees

Headquarters

Gardnerville, Nevada

Type

Nonprofit

Founded

2002

Specialties

Nonprofit, Bitcoins, Singularity, Transhumanism, Futurism, Existential Risks, Nanotechnology, Biotech, and Artificial Intelligence