Final week: IEET $1000 technoprogressivism dissertation award due Nov 1, 2026. Don’t miss it. ieet.org/doctoral-dissertati…
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Also on Humanism, back in 2000 I interviewed Paul Kurtz, founder of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and the Council for Secular Humanism, about his book, Humanist Manifesto 2000.
citizencyborg.substack.com/p…
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I'm speaking to the Humanists at Harvard tomorrow (Oct 25) from 1-3pm. If you are in Boston, I'd love to see you. meetup.com/harvardhumanist/e…
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Nick Agar’s case against radical enhancement closely mirrors the case against artificial superintelligence and the AI successionists who welcome it. It is a weak case against the gradual, democratic enhancement of human beings.
ieet.substack.com/p/agar-was…
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Agentic Inequality
nature.com/articles/s42256-0…
✍️ @mattjsharp @IasonGabriel et al. via @NatMachIntell
👉 The paper introduces the concept of agentic inequality, defining it as the emerging disparities in power, opportunity, and societal outcomes caused by unequal access to autonomous AI systems.
👉 The authors argue that this divide is uniquely dangerous compared to past technological gaps because AI agents act as autonomous delegates rather than static tools, introducing novel power asymmetries through the deployment of parallel "worker" swarms and direct, automated agent-to-agent competition.
💡 By framing AI access as the unequal distribution of an independent, highly scalable workforce, the paper shifts the AI ethics conversation from "who gets answers" to a much more volatile geopolitical and economic question: "who gets to wield automated institutional power?
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ALT 📷 Source: Matt Sharp / @mattjsharp
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⚠️ “It takes one algorithmic error to spark a chain of events between nuclear powers".
In November, the @UN could start negotiations on legally binding rules for autonomous weapons systems.
9 out of 10 citizens in the UK, France, and Germany support a global treaty… do you?
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Ethics that holds up academically — and matters socially.
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Scientists have turned blood cells from an 80-year-old into neural stem cells with a molecular age of less than 20.
sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
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I interviewed Nick Bostrom way back in 2000, when he was teaching at Yale, before he and I started building up the World Transhumanist Association, and then went on to start the IEET. From the Changesurfer Radio Archive. citizencyborg.substack.com/p…
"If the machine is spring-loaded to optimize care for every individual, we've put our entire system on a path toward bankruptcy. But make cost-effectiveness the default setting, and 'AI death panels' will reenter the public discourse within a week,"
axios.com/2026/10/20/medical…
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Another brilliant investigation of Anthropic by @aaronsibarium, this time on the troubling moral views of many of their employees and how this informs the answers its model gives.
freebeacon.com/america/i-don…
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"When a firm automates, it privatizes the savings from a reduced wage bill while socializing the costs of unemployment and community decline."
Right now, the public picks up the tab. Professor Alessandro Crimi argues an AI tax could help fund UBI and a stronger safety net.
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Which widely held assumptions about the future most need to be re-examined? Join members & friends of London Futurists in Ye Olde Cock Tavern, Fleet Street on Thursday 22nd Oct, as we explore how to strengthen the spiral of technoprogressive trust. RSVP via links in the comments
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Old stories are failing, and #AI now writes new ones at scale. So who writes the human Story? Ex-Xena writer turned #SciFi novelist PJ Manney on the New Mythos, myth gaps, and why #storytelling is to us what water is to fish. Recorded in 2022. Truer now. snglrty.co/3XMYg1f
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BREAKING: Anthropic is putting 5% of its shares into a Public Benefit Fund, with more added as the company grows. It could make "direct distributions to specific populations."
Not UBI. But AI companies expect massive wealth and disruption, and cash transfers are on the table.
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A lot of philosophy-infused AI discourse is ridiculous because it boils down to this:
"Look at this dumb layperson who believes [contentious view held by some philosophers of mind]. As an expert, I can tell you [contentious view held by some philosophers of mind]."
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Superintelligent Robots
Special issue of the journal "Philosophical Studies" @SpringerNature edited by John-Stewart Gordon and myself. With contributions from @joan_lloralb, @KamilMamak, @LeonardDung1, @adriarm_, @rhyssouthan, @jensemler
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