Si tout le monde admet que nous devons éviter la guerre nucléaire et la débâcle écologique, les opinions diffèrent amplement sur l’usage du génie biologique et de l’IA pour améliorer les humains et créer de nouvelles formes de vie. Si l’humanité ne parvient pas à concevoir et à administrer des directives éthiques globalement acceptées, ce sera cart

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Moreover, whereas nuclear war and climate change threaten only the physical survival of humankind, disruptive technologies might change the very nature of humanity, and are therefore entangled with humans’ deepest ethical and religious beliefs. While everyone agrees that we should avoid nuclear war and ecological meltdown, people have widely differ

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Technology has always been a double edged sword, bringing us longer and healthier life spans, freedom from physical and mental drudgery, and many new creative possibilities on the one hand, while introducing new and salient dangers on the other. However, the means and knowledge will soon exist in a routine college bioengineering lab (and already ex... See more