A talk about the political term technoprogressive and the recent Technoprogressive Declaration Hughes helped develop.

Rejecting the two extremes of bioconservatism and libertarian transhumanism, Hughes argues for a third way, “democratic transhumanism,” a radical form of techno-progressivism which asserts that the best possible “posthuman future” is achievable only by ensuring that human enhancement technologies are safe, made available to everyone, and respect the right of individuals to control their own bodies.

Without a clear strategic goal of a humanity freed from work through the gradual expansion of automation and the social wage, all policies short of Luddite bans on new technology will have disappointing and perverse effects.

Only a guaranteed basic income can ensure economic growth, technological innovation and social welfare.

The cognitive science emerging from this dialog with Buddhism can now also make some suggestions for those attempting to create self-aware, self-directed artificial intelligence (AI).

Hughes looks at how politicians and economists have yet to face the fact that an increasingly automated economy will mean the decline of human employment, and the potential establishment of a basic income guarantee.

Futurist, pharma tycoon, satellite entrepreneur, philosopher. Martine Rothblatt, the highest-paid female executive in America, was born male. But that is far from the thing that defines her. Just ask her wife. Then ask the robot version of her wife.

Rothblatt wants to knock down the wall between biological and digital. Between life and death. What’s coming, she says, are digital clones.

Entrepreneur and medical ethicist Martine Rothblatt discusses the future of artificial consciousness.

Even if they aren’t flesh, “mindclones” deserve protection.

McFarland interviews Rothblatt about the potential and drawbacks of our digital selves living forever.

National correspondent Amy Harmon sits down to talk with the Bina48 about what it's like to be a robot. Video of the interview is found here.

Rothblatt’s newest project appears lifted from science fiction: disembodied but breathing human lungs, hissing away in dome-shaped incubators, part of a clinical trial attempting to mend donated but not-quite-accepted-for-transplant lungs so that they can actually be placed in living human beings.