Lifeboat Foundation

"The Lifeboat Foundation is developing a world-class think tank with a rich cognitive diversity of philosophers, economists, biologists, nanotechnologists, AI researchers, educators, policy experts, engineers, lawyers, ethicists, futurists, neuroscientists, physicists, space experts, and other top thinkers to encourage scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic "


 * Eric Klien, President

Advisory Boards
Accessed July 2013:

Some of their board include

Human-Nonhuman Relationship Board

"This board focuses on current and future planetary conditions that impact non-human species. The board discusses scientific and ethical considerations in human-nonhuman relationships and the interdependence and preservation at the individual, population, species, and cultural levels.


 * Tracy R. Atkins, Anne Foerst, Linda MacDonald Glenn, Denise L. Herzing, Steven Kotler, Sherry Loveless, Lori Marino, Alexander Merritt, Ronald J. Reisman, Diana Reiss, Frank D. Smith, Lara Tosh

''Religion/Spirituality Board

"This board straddles the intersections of technology/science and religion/spirituality and discusses how religion and spirituality affect existential risks and looks towards common survival strategies that we can derive from this discussion.


 * Scott Atran, Michael D. Austin, Jason Batt, Nicholas C. L. Beale, John Blaska, Daniel A. Briggs, Dennis Chamberland, Patricia Smith Churchland, Philip Clayton, Robert Curtis, Luke Dashjr, Walter De Brouwer, Ilia Delio, Salvatore W. Delle Palme, Etienne Thillaye du Boullay, George F. R. Ellis, Owen Flanagan, Jr., Anne Foerst, Durwin Foster, Marcelo Gleiser, Paula D. Gordon, Stuart R. Hameroff, Barbara Marx Hubbard, William B. Hurlbut, Stuart A. Kauffman, Harold G. Koenig, John La Grou, William Lauritzen, Louise N. Leakey, Lakshman Madurasinghe, Jeffery A. Martin, Kenneth R. Miller, Ralf J. Muller, John Polkinghorne, Carolyn C. Porco, Loyal D. Rue, Michael Ruse, Ziauddin Sardar, Jean Staune, Christopher Stott, Richard Thieme, Lara Tosh, Natasha Vita-More, Michael Waltemathe, Christian Weidemann, Arthur Zajonc

''Sustainability Board

"This board discusses ways to enable mankind to be sustained for a long time. It looks for methods to sustain energy and food sources while reducing pollution, environental impact, etc.


 * Gary Abramson, Abigail Alling, L. Christer Andersson, Michael Archer, Michael D. Austin, Ed Begley, Jr., Joyce Bettencourt, Howard Bloom, Jeff Bone, Paul Brown, Dennis M. Bushnell, Robert Carlson, Greg Ching, Robert B. Cialdini, Dan Cohen, William J. Cosgrove, Bruce L. Cutright, Maayke-Aimée Damen, Simon Daniel, Lyle J. Dennis, J. Tim Denny, Leif A. DeVaney, Michael Dickey, Richard Doyle, Aleksandra Drizo, Alberto Dubois, Sylvia A. Earle, Mark R. Edwards, Menachem Elimelech, Elizabeth Florescu, Varushka Franceschi, Allister Furey, Medard Gabel, Pawel Gburzynski, Ken Goldberg, Odette Gregory, Zeus Guevara, Christine Hansen, Cesar Harada, David Hart, Andrew Harvey, Luis Herrera, Denise L. Herzing, Forrest Higgs, Mary Hodder, C.S. “Buzz” Holling, Feng Hsu, Garry E. Hunt, Syed Isa, Marcin Jakubowski, Niklas Järvstråt, Anders Johansen, Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Eiman Kanjo, James F. Kasting, Tom Kerwick, Nick King, Allan D. Kleiner, John La Grou, Louise N. Leakey, Sergio Lebid, Alison Lowndes, Douglas J. Malewicki, Richard Mallah, Scott Margeson, Kirk Martinez, Donna Marykwas, Michael N. Mautner, Eric Mazur, Jeffrey R. McCutcheon, Victoria McGrath, Pieter J. Mosterman, Nat Mundy, Nolene Ferrari Naidu, Pavel Nováček, Darío Núñez-Ameni, Robert Olson, Bakari A. Pace, Tapan S. Parikh, Bindeshwar Pathak, Ian D. Pearson, Benny J. Peiser, William M. Pentland, Boris Petrovic, Jonathon Porritt, Edward A. Ratovitski, Thomas S. Ray, W. Jud Ready, Michael Graham Richard, Avijit Roy, Pavlo Rudenko, Peter Russell, Stephan A. Schwartz, Brandon M. Seifert, Derek Shannon, Yair Sharan, Jie Sheng, Yasaman Sheri, Eric Wartenweiler Smith, Frank D. Smith, James Michael “Mike” Snead, Kirk Sorensen, Wole Soyinka, Narasimalu Srikanth, Jeremy Stone, John K. Strickland, Jr., Patrick K. Takahashi, Hanna L. Tuomisto, Margaret Carol Turnbull, Philippe Van Nedervelde, Geerat J. Vermeij, Radisav D. Vidic, Cyrus Wadia, Gregory J. Ward, Peter D. Ward, Willard Wells, Paul John Werbos, Grant S. Wilson, Steven Wolfe, Raymond D. Wright, Victor M. Yakovenko, G. Pascal Zachary, Mariann Zanardo, Justyna Zander, Yong Zhang

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