Christine Peterson

Co-Founder, Foresight Nanotech Institute

Christine Peterson is co-founder and vice president of public policy of the Foresight Nanotech Institute, the nanotechnology public interest group. She directs the Foresight Conferences on Molecular Nanotechnology, and organizes the Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes.

In 1992, she wrote together with K. Eric Drexler and Gayle Pergamit, Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution, and coauthored Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work with Gayle Pergamit. She works with Freedom Technology Ventures, and serves on the advisory board of Alameda Capital, the International Council on Nanotechnology, California's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology, and the editorial advisory board of NASA's Nanotech Briefs.

An advisor to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, she has presented at the two first Singularity Summit events and participated in the SIAI video interview series. Recently, she gave a talk on life extension strategies at the 7th Alcor Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. In November she served as the Unchair of the Foresight Nanotech Vision Weekend Unconference in Silicon Valley, where she spoke on the prospects of forward-looking engineers establishing open source physical security. Her new website focused on longevity research and personalized life extension is Healthactivator.com.

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SIAI Interview series

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2007 Singularity Summit, Preparing for Bizarreness: Open Source Physical Security
Singularity Summit at Stanford, Bringing Humanity and the Biosphere through the Singularity

transcripts

7th Alcor Conference, Life Extension: Good News, Bad News, Surprising News
2007 Singularity Summit, Open Source Physical Security
SIAI Interviews, The Connection Between Artificial Intelligence and Nanotech

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Singularity Summit at Stanford, Bringing Humanity and the Biosphere through the Singularity
SIAI Interviews, The Connection Between Artificial Intelligence and Nanotech
2007 Singularity Summit, Preparing for Bizarreness
7th Alcor Conference, Life Extension: Good News, Bad News, Surprising News
BIL 2008, Open Source Physical Security - Citizen-controlled defense