Bruce Klein

President, Novamente & Director of Outreach, SIAI

Bruce Klein is focused on raising the awareness and understanding of the Singularity Institute's mission to advance safe artificial general intelligence. He is an entrepreneur and social activist, presently serving as president of Novamente, a software products and services firm focused on creating intelligent agents for virtual worlds and massively multi-player online games. He blogs at AGI-World on the Novamente.net domain.

In 2002, Bruce Klein founded the Immortality Institute. He later served as an editor for The Scientific Conquest of Death, a volume devoted to examining the biological and philosophical arguments against dramatically extending the healthy human lifespan, with 18 contributors, including Michael Rose, Aubrey de Grey, and Michael West.

In the same year, the death of his mother led him to create a documentary film to promote the Immortality Institute's mission to overcome the "blight of involuntary death." He traveled the US, interviewing scientists and futurusts on the subject of life extension, leading to the film "Exploring Life Extension." He unveiled the film at the first Life Extension Conference, organized in 2005 together with his wife Susan-Fonseca Klein.

"Exploring Life Extension"