Humanize _{From Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism}

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Zoltan Istvan

An IT expert uses an EEG headset and machine learning technology to upload his brain into a computer, aiming for immortality. This scene captures a computer scientist developing an AI experiment

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post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 4, 2024

Categories
Transhumanism
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, artificial intelligence, Transhumanism, Wesley J. Smith, Zoltan Istvan}

Why Transhumanism Is Unrealistic and Immoral

_{Wesley J. Smith

September 4, 2024

Transhumanism}

In 2016, transhumanism proselytizer Zoltan Istvan ran for president promising to defeat death while touring the country in a bus redesigned to look like a coffin. It was a great gimmick that made him, perhaps, the most famous transhumanist in the world. But his recent piece in Merion West “When We’re Overly Optimistic about the Pace of Life Extension Research” took a dark and disturbing turn. Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 6, 2024

Tagged
, AI, Army Research Lab, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Boeing, Discovery Institute, engineering, futurist, Huffington Post, Humanize podcast, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Minding the Brain, Motherboard, NASA, National Geographic, National Institutes of Health, New York Times, Newsweek, Non-Computable You, Office of Naval Research, Robert J. Marks II, TechCrunch, The Transhumanist Wager, Transhuman Citizen, Transhumanism, Transhumanist Party, Vice, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Wesley J. Smith, Wired, Zoltan Istvan}

Robert J. Marks II and Zoltan Istvan on the Promise — or Threat — of Artificial Intelligence

_{Robert J. Marks II and Zoltan Istvan

May 6, 2024}

In this episode of Humanize, Wesley focuses on AI — artificial intelligence. Are we on the verge of an era if incalculable human progress because of the power of AI? Or are we threatened with being made obsolete and perhaps extinguished in an age of intelligent machines? Or, perhaps, a combination of both? The program features two experts who have Read More ›