We discuss many topics under the AI ethics sun, including AI and cognitive offloading, the future of work, AI and virtue ethics, Transhumanism versus Ludditism, existential risk, utopias and fully automated luxury communism, the promise of AI in science, and the ethics of AI companions.

the differing data collection models in the U.S., China, and the EU, his critique of the EU’s GDPR privacy laws, and his proposal for government-managed anonymized medical data collection to enhance technological competitiveness and support universal healthcare.

Topics include Nietzschean philosophy and its connection to transhumanism, metahumanism and how it differs from both transhumanism and posthumanism, Sorgner's 'we have always been cyborgs' thesis, his critique of traditional utopianism,

Dr. Sorgner is a philosophy professor at John Cabot University in Rome, Director and Co-Founder of the Beyond Humanism Network, and Editor-in-Chief and Founder of the Journal of Posthuman Studies. We discuss several aspects of his wide-ranging work.

Dr. Gilbert's research focuses on the ethics of novel implantable brain-computer interfaces operated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). We discuss several aspects of Dr. Gilbert’s wide-ranging work, focusing on deep brain stimulation (DBS).

In this sixth episode of the Umass Boston Ethics in Action Podcast mini-series on brain-computer interfaces, James Hughes and I are joined by Dr. Frederic Gilbert, Associate Professor and the Head of the Discipline for Philosophy at the University of Tasmania.

Summary: How should we respond to extremist views that we know are false? This paper proposes that we should be intellectually humble, but not open-minded. We should own our intellectual limitations, but be unwilling to revise our beliefs in the falsity of the extremist views.

genetic algorithms and AI systems subjected to simulated evolutionary pressures, studying introspection in animals versus AI, leveraging AI to better understand animal minds and promote animal welfare, wild animal welfare, zoo ethics, and the challenge of measuring animal welfare.

We discuss a variety of topics, including the evolution of consciousness, Walter's concept of phenomenological complexity, the adaptive functions of consciousness, artificial minds and AI consciousness, the possibility of superintelligent AI surpassing the need for consciousness,