Janna Quitney Anderson, associate professor of communications and director of the School of Communication's Imagining the Internet Center, has been named to the Futurists Advisory Board for the Lifeboat Foundation.
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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.
Through several advisory boards, the Lifeboat Foundation is developing a think tank that brings together philosophers, economists, biologists, nanotechnologists, AI researchers, educators, policy experts, engineers, lawyers, ethicists, futurists, neuroscientists, physicists, space experts, and other top thinkers.