Interstellar Might Depict AI Slavery
Put aside your morals momentarily — and now consider the perfect slave.
Category: Ethics
Truth and Justice
Two great ideas—truth and justice. A lifetime of study wouldn’t suffice to properly discuss these two ideas, but I wanted to offer something.
Ethics and Policy Concerns in the Transhuman Transition
Thanks to science fiction in literature and film, we are all familiar with cyborgs, brain-computer interfaces and augmented realty; all are examples of transhumanism, but nowadays, these aspects of emerging technology are also becoming an increasing part of our real...
Constructive Complexity, or Posthuman Ethics and Value Systems
George Carlin once asked, “If God loved you, how come He gave you tumors?”
Implanting Morality
In a recent post I argued that humans need to become more intelligent and moral if they are to survive and flourish. In other words, they must evolve. A few perceptive readers raised objections about the nature of morality and the techniques...
Intelligence Augmentation
Yesterday’s post argued for the moral and intellectual augmentation of human beings. I’d like to add to my thoughts on intellectual augmentation, saving the more controversial moral issues for later.
Religion+ for Humanity+
Should we leave open the possibility that religious traditions may have something to offer to the transhumanist movement?
Event: Hangout on Air: Our Final Invention – AI and the end of the human era
The Hollywood cliché is that artificial intelligence will take over the world. Could this cliché soon become scientific reality, as AI matches then surpasses human intelligence?
Immanuel Kant: Morality Necessitates Immortality
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an 18th century philosopher, one of the earliest philosophers belonging to the enlightenment tradition, and often considered the father of German Idealism. Kant is remembered today more for his moral philosophy than his contributions to metaphysics and epistemology (Rohlf 2010). His contributions to the field of life-extension, however, remain almost completely unexplored, despite the fact that certain claims made in his Theory of Ethics arguably qualify him as a historical antecedent of the contemporary social movement and academic discipline of life-extension.