Lifeboat Foundation

The Lifeboat Foundatation 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."
Much of the money raised by the organization goes toward financing research projects at universities and other institutes.
Advisory Boards
The Lifeboat foundation maintains dedicated "advisory boards" for research into specific topics related to existential risks, including:
* Asteroid/Comet Impacts Board
* Astrobiology/SETI Board
* Biotech/Medical Board
* Business Board
* Chemistry Board
* Complex Systems Board
* Cosmology Board
* Counterterrorism Board
* Cybercrime/Malcode Board
* Diplomacy Board
* Economics Board
* Education Board
* Engineering Board
* Ethics Board
* Finance Board
* Futurists Board
* Geology/Geophysics Board
* Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board
* Human Trajectories Board
* Information Sciences Board
* Legal Board
* Life Extension Board
* Media & Arts Board
* Methods for Discovery & Solution Finding Board
* Nanotechnology Board
* Neuroscience Board
* Particle Physics Board
* Philosophy Board
* Physics Board
* Policy Board
* Religion/Spirituality Board
* Robotics/AI Board
* Scientific Freedom Board
* Social Factors Board
* Space Settlement Board
* Supercomputing Board
* Sustainability Board
* Transparency and Privacy Board
The membership of these boards includes 13 Nobel laureates, among them Eric Maskin, who serves on the group’s economics board.

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