The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit organization devoted to researching the possibilities of existential risk from powerful modern technologies, such as those based on genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, and proposing policy options to avert or minimize the risks. We pursue a variety of options focused on the effort to accelerate development of defensive technologies — including anti-biological virus technologies, nanotechnological defensive strategies, and self-sustaining space colonies in case all else fails.
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).
Our work is supported by a scientific advisory board, which contains a large number of notable scientists, futurists, philosophers and other thinkers who are concerned about the possibilities and risks of advanced technologies.
We have many of the best minds on the planet working on our "Project of Hope for the 21st Century"!
Click on the links below for more details!
CURRENT PROGRAMS
AsteroidShield
To protect against devastating asteroid strikes.
BioShield
To protect against bioweapons and pandemics.
InternetShield
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.
NanoShield
To protect against ecophages and nonreplicating nanoweapons.
SecurityPreserver
To prevent nuclear, biological, and nanotechnological attacks from occurring by using surveillance and
sousveillance
to identify terrorists before they are able to launch their attacks.
Space Habitats
To build fail-safes against global existential risks by encouraging
the spread of sustainable human civilization beyond Earth.
FUTURE PROGRAMS
BioPreserver
To preserve animal life and diversity on the planet.
ClimateShield
To protect against global warming and other unwanted climate changes.
CommPreserver
Explores new communication technology for surviving existential events.
EnergyPreserver
If our civilization ran out of energy, it would grind to a halt, so Lifeboat Foundation is looking for solutions.
InfoPreserver
To preserve the information created by our civilization, including technology as well as art and culture.
LifePreserver
The program explores new life-extension methods, such as the work of Aubrey de Grey and Robert A. Freitas, Jr.
NeuroethicsShield
To prevent abuse in the areas of neuropharmaceuticals, neurodevices, and neurodiagnostics. Worst cases include
enslaving the world's population or causing everyone to commit suicide.
NuclearShield
To prevent nuclear holocaust including destruction of entire cities.
ParticleAcceleratorShield
To prevent, and also make plans on surviving when possible, particle accelerator mishaps including quantum vacuum collapse, mining the quantum vacuum, formation of a stable strangelet, and the creation of artificial mini-black holes.
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"It seems to me anybody who says it's impossible is a very strange pundit. How can you be sure that such a thing is not possible? You can't know until you try, and if you try and fail you can't know that you tried the right thing. People who think they know what's possible and what's not...are foolish. They don't know what's possible."
--Words by Marvin Minsky regarding life extension, but that could probably be applied to everything in science.
Methuselah Foundation needs your help now. We are supporting a project called "Undergrads Fighting Age Related Disease" which has been submitted as part of the American Express Members Project initiative. We ask that you go to http://www.membersproject.com/ and nominate this project; the winners will share US $2.5 million in funding. You don't need to be an Amex card holder. It's free, and should take less than 5 minutes to finish.
We need to raise more than 2000 votes in the next 2 weeks - by Sept 1, 2008 - so please support this effort and vote now. This is open to US residents only. Instructions:
1. Go here: http://www.membersproject.com/
2.a. If you are not an American Express Card Member: - Click on "Guest Members Log In" in the upper right corner of the page. Then click on "Guest Members Sign Up Here" at the bottom of the next page. -- or -- 2.b. If you are an American Express Card Member: - Click on "Cardmembers Log In" on the right side of the page. If you don't already have a login account, click on "Create a Log In" on the next page.
3. Complete the registration form; you will then be issued your login ID.
4. Once you are logged into the Members Project, you can either - a) enter "Undergrads Fighting Age Related Disease" in Search, or - b) click on "Health" then "Diseases and Disorders" at the bottom right of the page, and scroll down to "Undergrads Fighting Age Related Disease".
5. Click on the project name, and then click on the "Nominate this Project" button. Finally, click on "Post Your Comments" at the bottom of the screen, since discussion board activity counts favorably as a factor towards nomination of the top 25 projects.
Thank you for your support, Methuselah Foundation
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