Your last chance to vote for the transhumanist candidate
Zoltan Istvan's policies sound odd, but at least he lays his cards on the table As the bitter and dirty race for the American presidency...
Is immortality just a pipe dream?
An article in Nature suggests that humans are unlikely to live longer than 125Jeanne Calment, our oldest An article in Nature has cast a wet...
What the experts think of malign superintelligence
Not muchSkynet is not keen on those pesky humans Will you live long enough to be enslaved by super-intelligent artificial intelligence? Oxford philosophy professor Nick...
Has Obamacare created a “transgender mandate”?
Activists claim that doctors will be forced to perform gender transition procedures. On yet another front, Obamacare has been challenged on ethical grounds, this time...
Provocative new study questions the science of gender
Where is the evidence for sexual orientation and gender identity?A report on gender and sexuality released by the journal The New Atlantis has met with...
Diversity, disability and eugenics: an interview with Rob Sparrow
In a provocative interview with BioEdge, influential bioethicist and philosopher Rob Sparrow discusses various current controversies in bioethics. Australian bioethicist Rob Sparrow has written extensively...
X-Men: fine in the movies but not in real life
Americans are sceptical of human enhancement Don't say we didn't warn you: the latest instalment has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 48% Despite the popularity...
Unless we act quickly, humans will be house pets to robots, says Elon Musk
Extraordinary musings from Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elon Musk, billionaire co-founder of PayPal, and the boss of boss of Tesla and SpaceX, fears that Artificial Intelligence...
Enhancing the disadvantaged
A new edition of the American Journal of Bioethics explores the possibility of remedying social disadvantage through cognitive enhancement. A new edition of the American...
Washington Post features symposium on transhumanism
Is the movement becoming mainstream?As a sign of growing interest in transhumanism, the Washington Post recently featured a symposium with several distinguished writers. It may...
What the man in the street thinks about human enhancement
Overwhelmingly against germline modification What does the American public think about human germline enhancement? A survey of 17 polls taken over the 30 years published...
Can we slim down the welfare state without eugenics?
A British academic has created a storm of controversy over his proposal to reduce the welfare-dependent population The restless rent-a-crowd of British university protesters has...