First Lifeboat Foundation Conference
AbstractThe Lifeboat Foundation is supporting its first conference. And this conference is next month!
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October 6, 2008 —
Along with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and the
Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, the Lifeboat Foundation is
sponsoring
Global Catastrophic Risks: Building a Resilient Civilization
which will be
held November
14, 2008 at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.
This conference will precede the futurist mega-gathering Convergence 08,
November 15–16 at the same venue.The Lifeboat Foundation’s Jamais Cascio, James J. Hughes, Mike Treder, and Eliezer Yudkowsky will be participating.
Help the Lifeboat Foundation support this event! (They have already raised $1,000 out of their goal of $2,500.)
If you wish to be a speaker at this event, please write to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Speaker”.
About Lifeboat Foundation
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 a technological singularity.
Contacts:
Lifeboat Foundation News office
1468 James Rd
Gardnerville, NV 89460, USA
+1 (512) 548-6425
[email protected]