The future of ethics and emerging technologies
A conference in Central London, organised by the IEET and London Futurists
Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
Venue to-be-announced
Note: the following details are provisional, and are subject to change
Brief description:
In a time of dramatic changes in the capabilities of technologies, and when political and social norms are being disrupted as never before, how can society reach the wisest decisions about which technologies to encourage and which to constrain? And how can society ensure that these decisions are followed in practice, rather than being ignored or subverted by powerful self-interested forces?
Themes
Speakers are invited to cover themes such as:
- Abundance: Creating it and sustaining it
- Beyond the Green New Deal
- The Technoprogressive Declaration, 12 years after
- The impending Economic Singularity: myth or reality?
- PostCapitalism and PostSocialism
- Progressive politics if there’s no working class
- Technologies for collaboration
- Democracy in the wake of AI
- Politics and human enhancement
- Escaping from Molloch: avoiding the race to the bottom
- The Longevity Dividend: making it real
- Alternative banners: transhumanism, vitalism, ecomodernism, or what?
- From Cold War 2.0 to a new world order?
- Ethics: by whom and for whom?
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