The Lifeboat Foundation is a non-profit organization with an explicit mandate of "helping humanity survive existential risks" and anticipate possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, especially in the event of a technological singularity. The Lifeboat Foundation advocates scientific and technological advancements which will help humanity, and life in general, survive both natural and artificial existential risks by identifying and implementing strategies to mitigate the overall threat that these increasingly powerful technologies pose and the threat that cataclysmic natural events pose.