Lifeboat News http://lifeboat.com/ 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. en-us 120 Copyright 2002-2026 Lifeboat Foundation Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:58:54 CDT lifeboatnews@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat News) webmaster@lifeboat.com (Lifeboat Webmaster) Erick Weiss, CEO of the Transnational Space Alliance Summit (TSAS), joins our Space Settlement Board. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_16_26_Erick_Weiss_CEO_of_the_Transnational_Space_Alliance_Summit_TSAS_joins_our_Space_Settlement_Board Erick Weiss, CEO of the Transnational Space Alliance Summit (TSAS), joins our Space Settlement Board. Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:58:54 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_16_26_Erick_Weiss_CEO_of_the_Transnational_Space_Alliance_Summit_TSAS_joins_our_Space_Settlement_Board Kai Micah Mills, CEO of Cryopets, joins our Life Extension Board. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_16_26_Kai_Micah_Mills_CEO_of_Cryopets_joins_our_Life_Extension_Board Kai Micah Mills, CEO of Cryopets, joins our Life Extension Board. Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:19:15 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_16_26_Kai_Micah_Mills_CEO_of_Cryopets_joins_our_Life_Extension_Board Read "Dictators and Disinformation: How to Save Democracy and Rescue Social Media" by our Jay Friedenberg. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_16_26_Read_Dictators_and_Disinformation_How_to_Save_Democracy_and_Rescue_Social_Media_by_our_Jay_Friedenberg Read "Dictators and Disinformation: How to Save Democracy and Rescue Social Media" by our Jay Friedenberg. Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:54:08 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_16_26_Read_Dictators_and_Disinformation_How_to_Save_Democracy_and_Rescue_Social_Media_by_our_Jay_Friedenberg Check out our Elaine Walker's new mini-movie music album. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_12_26_Check_out_our_Elaine_Walkers_new_mini_movie_music_album Check out our Elaine Walker’s new mini-movie music album. It’s meant for friends to have viewing parties! It’s 40 minutes total, made with real human-made stock footage!

The music album is written fully in the Bohlen-Pierce Scale for the 10-year anniversary of Heinz Bohlen’s passing. May the Bohlen-Pierce Scale live long and prosper. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:23:16 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_12_26_Check_out_our_Elaine_Walkers_new_mini_movie_music_album Read "Advances in Third-Generation Bioethanol Production, Industrial Infrastructure and Efficient Technologies in Sustainable Processes with Algae Biomass: Systematic Review", coauthored by our Daniel Lowy. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_12_26_Read_Advances_in_Third_Generation_Bioethanol_Production_Industrial_Infrastructure_and_Efficient_Technologies_in_Sustainable_Processes_with_Algae_Biomass_Systematic_Review_coauthored_by_our_Daniel_Lowy Read "Advances in Third-Generation Bioethanol Production, Industrial Infrastructure and Efficient Technologies in Sustainable Processes with Algae Biomass: Systematic Review", coauthored by our Daniel Lowy. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:31:06 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_12_26_Read_Advances_in_Third_Generation_Bioethanol_Production_Industrial_Infrastructure_and_Efficient_Technologies_in_Sustainable_Processes_with_Algae_Biomass_Systematic_Review_coauthored_by_our_Daniel_Lowy Watch "From *How* to Learn to *What* to Learn in Multiagent Systems and Robotics" with our Peter Stone. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_12_26_Watch_From_*How*_to_Learn_to_*What*_to_Learn_in_Multiagent_Systems_and_Robotics_with_our_Peter_Stone Watch "From *How* to Learn to *What* to Learn in Multiagent Systems and Robotics" with our Peter Stone. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:40:45 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_12_26_Watch_From_*How*_to_Learn_to_*What*_to_Learn_in_Multiagent_Systems_and_Robotics_with_our_Peter_Stone Watch "INNS Webinar Series: Nobelization of Neural Networks" with our Wlodzislaw Duch. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_12_26_Watch_INNS_Webinar_Series_Nobelization_of_Neural_Networks_with_our_Wlodzislaw_Duch Watch "INNS Webinar Series: Nobelization of Neural Networks" with our Włodzisław Duch. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:42:04 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_12_26_Watch_INNS_Webinar_Series_Nobelization_of_Neural_Networks_with_our_Wlodzislaw_Duch Watch "DEF CON 33 - Thinking Like a Hacker in the Age of AI - Richard 'neuralcowboy' Thieme" by our Richard Thieme. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_12_26_Watch_DEF_CON_33_Thinking_Like_a_Hacker_in_the_Age_of_AI_Richard_neuralcowboy_Thieme_by_our_Richard_Thieme Watch "DEF CON 33 - Thinking Like a Hacker in the Age of AI - Richard ‘neuralcowboy’ Thieme" by our Richard Thieme. Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:22:01 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_12_26_Watch_DEF_CON_33_Thinking_Like_a_Hacker_in_the_Age_of_AI_Richard_neuralcowboy_Thieme_by_our_Richard_Thieme Read "The total eclipse of bioinformatics: From disruption to convention, and a gentle warning" by our Christos A. Ouzounis. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_10_26_Read_The_total_eclipse_of_bioinformatics_From_disruption_to_convention_and_a_gentle_warning_by_our_Christos_A_Ouzounis Read "The total eclipse of bioinformatics: From disruption to convention, and a gentle warning" by our Christos A. Ouzounis. Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:33:37 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_10_26_Read_The_total_eclipse_of_bioinformatics_From_disruption_to_convention_and_a_gentle_warning_by_our_Christos_A_Ouzounis Read "Brain, Mind and Consciousness", authored by our Subhash Kak. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_26_Read_Brain_Mind_and_Consciousness_authored_by_our_Subhash_Kak Read "Brain, Mind and Consciousness", authored by our Subhash Kak. Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:58:23 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_26_Read_Brain_Mind_and_Consciousness_authored_by_our_Subhash_Kak Read "The Selfish Universe: or, who the genes are really working for" by our Kelly Anderson. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_26_Read_The_Selfish_Universe_or_who_the_genes_are_really_working_for_by_our_Kelly_Anderson Read "The Selfish Universe: or, who the genes are really working for" by our Kelly Anderson. Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:11:22 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_26_Read_The_Selfish_Universe_or_who_the_genes_are_really_working_for_by_our_Kelly_Anderson Read "Build a Positive Rebellion: Create New Education Futures" by our John W. Moravec. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_26_Read_Build_a_Positive_Rebellion_Create_New_Education_Futures_by_our_John_W_Moravec Read "Build a Positive Rebellion: Create New Education Futures" by our John W. Moravec. Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:41:10 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_26_Read_Build_a_Positive_Rebellion_Create_New_Education_Futures_by_our_John_W_Moravec Read "AIlien Minds: Advice about (and for) our natural, AI & hybrid heirs", by our David Brin. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_26_Read_AIlien_Minds_Advice_about_and_for_our_natural_AI_and_hybrid_heirs_by_our_David_Brin Read "AIlien Minds: Advice about (and for) our natural, AI and hybrid heirs", by our David Brin.

Optimists foretell a golden age of AI-managed abundance. Doomers cry: vast cyber-minds will crush old style humanity! Or make us irrelevant. Meanwhile, geniuses fostering the artificial intelligence boom cling to clichés rooted in the dismal human past… or else in cheap sci-fi. Is there still time to step back and take perspective?

- on 4 billion years of evolution… - on 60 centuries of wretched feudalism… - on how we dealt with prior tech revolutions… - on ways that this time may be different?

From AI-driven unemployment to deceitful images, to hallucinating LLMs and tools for tyrants… to potentially wondrous gifts by machines of loving grace…come see future paths that evade the standard ruts.

A tour guided by scientist/novelist David Brin, author of "The Transparent Society" and "The Postman". Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:59:54 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_26_Read_AIlien_Minds_Advice_about_and_for_our_natural_AI_and_hybrid_heirs_by_our_David_Brin Learn about "Joyless", a graphic novel that is a collection of vignettes from a future where feelings are optimized by algorithms", by our Koby Barhad. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_26_Learn_about_Joyless_a_graphic_novel_that_is_a_collection_of_vignettes_from_a_future_where_feelings_are_optimized_by_algorithms_by_our_Koby_Barhad Learn about "Joyless", a graphic novel that is a collection of vignettes from a future where feelings are optimized by algorithms", by our Koby Barhad.

The stories are inspired by real world patents in Artificial Emotional Intelligence. Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:03:09 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_26_Learn_about_Joyless_a_graphic_novel_that_is_a_collection_of_vignettes_from_a_future_where_feelings_are_optimized_by_algorithms_by_our_Koby_Barhad Read "AICID: Unique Identifiers for AI Scientists" by our Clement Vidal. https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_26_Read_AICID_Unique_Identifiers_for_AI_Scientists_by_our_Clement_Vidal Read "AICID: Unique Identifiers for AI Scientists" by our Clément Vidal.

Visit AICID. AICID is inspired by ORCID and assigns a unique, persistent identifier to every AI agent doing science — so their contributions to research can be tracked, attributed, and cited. Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:20:08 CDT https://lifeboat.com/ex/whats.new#10_09_26_Read_AICID_Unique_Identifiers_for_AI_Scientists_by_our_Clement_Vidal