Lifeboat Foundation
The Lifeboat Foundation (est. 2009) 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.
The Lifeboat Foundation is working on a prototype Friendly AI and also has launched the world’s first bitcoin endowment fund. Board Members as of 2016 include Raymond Kurzweil, Director of Engineering at Google, and Nobel Laureates Daniel Kahneman, Eric S. Maskin, Richard J. Roberts, and Wole Soyinka.
