Michael Anissimov
Fundraising Director North America, Lifeboat Foundation
Michael Anissimov is a science/technology writer and consultant based in San Francisco. His blog, Accelerating Future, has received 3 million views since its founding in 2006, and was covered on G4.TV's Attack of the Show and Wired.com. His posts have reached the front page of social news sites like Digg and Reddit.
In 2002, when still in High School, he co-founded the non-profit Immortality Institute, a grassroots life extension advocacy organization. The non-profit was formed to tap into a new realization in the scientific community that stem cell research and regenerative medicine could be used over the next few decades to radically extend human life and health.
He is currently Fundraising Director for the Lifeboat Foundation, a non-profit devoted to studying and ameliorating catastrophic global risks from biotech, nanotech, AI/robotics, and other sources of danger. The Lifeboat Foundation's advisory board includes hundreds of thought leaders in science and technology, including Nobel Laureates Sir Clive W.J. Granger and Eric S. Maskin.
Michael has worked with the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Methuselah Foundation. In May 2007, he was profiled for Psychology Today magazine. He was also quoted several times in Ray Kurzweil's best-selling 2005 book, The Singularity is Near and serves on the board of directors of the World Transhumanist Association.
video
The Speculist, Voices from the 2007 Singularity Summit
transcripts
2007 Foresight Vision Weekend Unconference,
Preventing Technological Armageddon
audio
09.20.07
Podcasting the Singularity hosted by Chris Williamson
22:47
05.06.07
NeoFiles hosted by RU Sirius
11:06
05.05.07
Changesurfer Radio hosted by
James Hughes
18:56
01.14.07
Sentient Developments Radio hosted by
George Dvorsky
29:58