Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
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The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (@ieet.org) is an international nonprofit technoprogressive think tank. Also on Substack, Facebook, Bsky and we podcast. #futureofwork #AIethics #humanenhancement
Bear in mind that this is a Manhattan Institute poll with a clear bias in the question about how UBI "would require significant government funding" and go to people "whether they work", but still, that Dems and voters age 18-35 still strongly support it is something Dem politicians should leverage.
The AMA’s new policy, “Gender Affirming Healthcare and Research,” reaffirms commitment to pediatric medical transition, calls for restoring research funding, and states that surgical interventions fall under the “affirming care” protocol. www.city-journal.org/article/amer...
The American Medical Association Digs in Its Heels on Pediatric Gender Transition
A new policy on gender medicine disregards mounting evidence against the practice.
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The Trump Administration banned new humanoid and quadruped robot imports from abroad, saying they pose “unacceptable risks” to US national security. The ban includes converters to connect renewable energy infrastructure and batteries to the power grid. www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/t...
China’s humanoid robots have been taking over the global market. Now the US is banning them | CNN Business
China, which supplies the vast majority of the world’s humanoid robots, has suddenly been cut off from its largest export market as the US government moves to curb its reliance on foreign technology.
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People with money struggles or poverty during early-middle adulthood did worse on cognitive tests at 53. On brain scans, lower incomes had poorer brain health ages 69-71. Impact was greater in men, those from disadvantaged childhoods. #UBIforlongevity www.inc.com/lucia-auerba...
A Common Anxiety Could Be Aging Your Brain Faster and Increasing Your Risk of Cognitive Decline, New Research Finds
Researchers tracked participants across multiple decades to identify how a common stress played a role in their long-term brain health.
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"We're still going to complain about it, but secretly we're going to be happy."
Sam Altman Says Even the Power of AI Will Never Lead to a Shorter Work Week
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some bad news: AI will never lead to a shorter work week — despite having already ushered in the singularity.
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The correlation between science denial, racism, and far rightedness is almost a straight collinear line.
Frontiers in Psychology RFP: Social and Moral Psychology of The Unknown – Utilizing The Science Fiction Method. Deadline June 2027. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Frontiers | Social and Moral Psychology of The Unknown – Utilizing The Science Fiction Method
Social and moral psychology increasingly intersect with the study of how people perceive and engage with hypothetical scenarios, many of which are rooted in ...
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A single treatment with LSD broadly enhanced synaptic plasticity in brain regions critical for learning and paying attention, increasing mental speed. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your...
LSD Today for a Better Brain Tomorrow
A recent study investigated what happens inside the brain during and after a single treatment with LSD.
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"Rather than resist AI, unions should become advocates of a pro-worker AI agenda. Merely bargaining for higher wages won’t be enough: Most companies will respond to demands for higher wages by simply choosing more automation." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Automation Led to Economic Misery. AI Doesn’t Have To.
How to make AI work for workers
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69% of US employees support forcing AI companies to transfer 50 percent of their stock into a public wealth fund, an idea that has been championed by senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT). www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry
"AI sovereign funds are seen as a tool to distribute the gains from the AI industry back to broader society."
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Many would adopt human enhancement technologies but want them regulated. And those who wouldn't adopt don't want them banned. Demand and governance have different determinants. nber.org/papers/w35495
Human Enhancement Technologies: A Survey Experiment on Private Demand and Governance Preferences.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Right to Try This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss patient autonomy and the "right to try". The debate surrounding medical autonomy is intensifying as desperate patients use federal "Right-to-Try" laws and amateur biohackers bypass regulations. prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/right-to-t...
Right to Try | Prosthetic Gods
Episode 45 - Right to Try This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss patient autonomy and the "right to try". The debate surrounding medical autonomy is intensifying as desperate patients use fed...
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“Does intelligence boost happiness?” Meta-analysis: No IQ-happiness correlation at the micro-level, but "At the macro-level, we assessed the correlation between average IQ and average happiness in 143 nations and found a strong positive relationship.' www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Does intelligence boost happiness? Smartness of all pays more than being smarter than others | International Journal of Happiness and Development
We invest much in maximising intelligence and we get ever smarter: But does this make us any happier? The relation between intelligence and happiness is explored on two levels, at the micro-level of i...
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London Futurists: This first episode on “the technoprogressive opportunity” - the name of a conference taking place in London Sept 19-20, co-organised by London Futurists and IEET. Today: Matteo MacDermant, technophilosopher, “Bread and Robots” host. londonfuturists.buzzsprout.com/2028982/epis...
LFP 132: Matteo Rossi MacDermant - Technoprogressive Worldbuilding - London Futurists
This is the first of a number of episodes on the broad theme of “the technoprogressive opportunity”. That’s the name of a conference taking place in London on the weekend of 19th and 20th September, c...
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Vinge's Singularity: A 2026 Review - Tim Ventura medium.com/predict/vern...
Vernor Vinge and The Coming Technological Singularity
Was Vernor Vinge’s 1993 Prediction of a Post-Human Era a Work of Prophecy, Philosophy, or Science Fiction?
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OpenAI Says Its AI Models Went Rogue & Attacked a Digital Library. The incident, which happened while OpenAI was testing the cybersecurity capabilities of its systems, displayed the kind of science-fiction potential that AI companies warned would soon become a reality www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/t...
OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library
The incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company called Hugging Face, happened while OpenAI was testing the systems.
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What will we do with our time once artificial general intelligence (AGI) surpasses humankind? Join me on Inner Cosmos this week with Ben Goertzel to examine the future just around the corner. eagleman.com/podcast/163
Stephen Damianos, Executive Director of the Neurorights Foundation,spoke at The Philosophy of Brain-Computer Interfaces, co-sponsored by the UMass Boston Applied Ethics Center and the IEET June 5–6, 2026, UMass Boston. www.youtube.com/watch?v=98it...
Neurorights in Practice
YouTube video by Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET)
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The IEET and the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston co-sponsored a conference on the ethics of brain-computer interfaces in Boston, June 5-6, 2026. The videos from the conference are now online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The Philosophy of Brain-Computer Interfaces - YouTube
The IEET and the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston co-sponsored a conference on the ethics of brain-computer interfaces in Boston, June 5-6, 2026. https:...
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Human rights in the context of technological improvement: transhumanism, neurolaw, and morphological freedom as challenges to modern legal doctrine journals.uran.ua/jjournal-ehs...
"The Technoprogressive Opportunity: The future of ethics and emerging technologies" London, Sept 19-20, 2026 Co-hosted by J Hughes (IEET) and David Wood (London Futurists) An opportunity to strengthen the technoprogressive current in futurism More: luma.com/bk22gy6s
The Technoprogressive Opportunity: The future of ethics and emerging technologies · Luma
We live in a time of dramatic changes in the capabilities of technologies. Political and social norms are being disrupted as never before. Humanity faces both…
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This summer Matteo MacDermant is teaching Technoprogressive Worldbuilding for the IEET. We discuss the themes of the course, and some philosophical reflections about the technoprogressive project. Bolsheviks, tech workers, epistemology, and more. technoprogressives.substack.com/p/technoprog...
Technoprogressive Worldbuilding
J and Matteo discuss the themes of the IEET Summer Course
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Alta Charo, Univ of Wisconsin–Madison law prof and one of the U.S.' leading bioethicists, spoke at the June 5-6, 2026 conf on The Philosophy of Brain-Computer Interfaces, co-sponsored by the UMass Boston Applied Ethics Center and the IEET, June 5–6, 2026, Boston. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMTd...
Therapy/Enhancement in Neurotechnology
YouTube video by Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET)
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The Spanish political party Alianza Futurista has released its new program, which includes proposals for an Alliance of Democracies, AI regulation, existential risks, geoengineering, cryopreservation, cultivated meat, longevity and emergency preparedness. alianzafuturista.org/declaracion-...
Declaración de Principios - Alianza Futurista
Este documento tiene una extensión de unas 90 páginas impresas. Tiempo estimado de lectura: 2 horas. Si prefieres leerlo, descargarlo o imprimirlo como PDF (con notas a pie de páginas en vez de al fin...
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If anybody is motivated to write something for the IEET Substack on the metaphorical significance of the memory erasure drugs in Apple TV's Silo please contact director@ieet.org
Stephen Damianos of the Neurorights Foundation spoke at the June 5-6 BCI Ethics conference in Boston organized by the IEET and UMB-AEC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=98it...
Neurorights in Practice
YouTube video by Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET)
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Bread and Robots spoke with Lizzie O’Shea, a lawyer and the author of Future Histories. They speak in depth about creating histories, and dig into cybernetics, social movements, social history, and much more. substack.com/@mr2086/note...
Future Histories
A Conversation with Lizzie O'Shea
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