Would you cut off your legs and replace them with prostheses which can take you places faster? Would you take drugs to enhance your cognitive skills? Perhaps you are already doing that? In the latest

Defending the dissertation Human enhancement and technological uncertainty. Essays on the promise and peril of emerging technology by Karim Jebari. Dissertation in Philosophy at KTH in Stockholm. Opponent

It's hard to know where the knowledge we acquire and the technology we develop may take us. Sometimes it is not until after several years that we learn how these skills or technologies can benefit - o

Human enhancement - intervju med Karim Jebari om hans doktorsavhandling

Karim Jebari på Institutet för Framtidsstudier intervjuas om sin doktorsavhandling som handlar om human enhancement och riskerna med ny teknologi.

Doctoral thesis. KTH Royal Institute of Technology.ISBN 978-91 7595-341-0 Abstract Essay I explores brain machine interface (BMI) technologies. These make direct connection between the brain and a machi

Main speaker: Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics A seminar on the use of medicine to improve moral behaviour and solve the greatest problems of the 21st century. The greatest problem

PNAS, Vol. 120, No. 24 Abstract The question of how cooperation evolves and is maintained among nonkin is central to the biological, social, and behavioral sciences. Previous research has focused on exp

Q&A - The Future of Humans. Moral Bioenhancement

The greatest problems of the 21st century - climate change, terrorism, poverty and global inequality, among others – are not the result of external threat, but predominantly the result of human cho

Anders Sandberg

My research focus on issues of the very long-term future, technologies that can change the human condition, low-probability high-impact risks, and how to reason about such uncertain domains. More spec

Karim Jebari

I am a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. I defended my doctoral thesis in December 2014 at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).  I am writing a book on the climate crisis and the futu