Christine Peterson is Co-founder and former President of Foresight Institute. She lectures and writes about nanotechnology, AI, and longevity. She is co-author of Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution (Morrow, also free online); Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work (knOwhere Press, also free online); and Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation (Foresight Institute Press, also free online).

She advises the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Global Healthspan Policy Institute, National Space Society, startup Ligandal, and the Animal Pain Research Institute.

She instigated the memetic term “open source software.” She holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from MIT.