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Mission Statement
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!
The Lifeboat Foundation is working on a prototype
Friendly AI and
also has launched the world’s first
bitcoin endowment fund.
