Submitted by Seán O’Heigeartaigh on Mon, 14/05/2012 - 13:22
"Do we want things to remain the same, and does that stop us making rational judgements in the area of cognitive enhancement?" Nick Bostrom discusses these questions with Nigel Warburton. This episode was made as part of Bioethics Bites in association with the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and made possible by a grant from the Wellcome Trust
Submitted by Seán O’Heigeartaigh on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 16:39
On Thursday the 10th of May, Dr. Anders Sandberg will give a talk titled "Biometrics, Spoofing and the Transparency of the Future" in Rome as part of the Tabula Rasa project.
In this short talk, Future of Humanity Institute researcher Stuart Armstrong has 5 minutes to lay out the reasons why Artificial Intelligence, if possible, will likely be extremely powerful and considerably dangerous (though not at all in the ways movies imply).
The talk was given at the 25th Oxford Geek Night on the 29th of February 2012
Submitted by Seán O’Heigeartaigh on Fri, 04/05/2012 - 11:58
In the Lloyd's library in London, Eric Drexler addressed business risks and opportunities of nanotechnology. Sponsored by both the UK Knowledge Transfer Networks of Finance and Nanotechnology, Drexler focuses initially on a broad overview of nanotechnology, then examines current and emerging risks. The talk concludes with prospects for transformative future nanotechnologies.
Submitted by Seán O’Heigeartaigh on Fri, 04/05/2012 - 11:19
James Martin Research Fellow Dr. Anders Sandberg will be speaking at this year's TEDx Tallinn Conference on May 4th.
He will be joining a distinguished lineup of speakers including Julia Laffranque (Judge of the European Court of Human Rights) Randal A. Koene (groundbreaking neuroscientist and co-founder of the carboncopies.org network) and Steve Omohundro (physicist, neural networks researcher, president of Self-Aware Systems).
Submitted by Seán O’Heigeartaigh on Mon, 16/04/2012 - 12:14
"Hybrid reality: the emerging human-technology co-evolution"
by Parag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna, 23rd April, 17:00 - 18:30, Oxford Martin Seminar Rooms , Old Indian Institute (Corner of Broad Street and Catte Street)
Submitted by Seán O’Heigeartaigh on Mon, 19/03/2012 - 15:43
Dr. Anders Sandberg and Dr. Stuart Armstrong from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology and the Future of Humanity Institute recently met with researchers from the Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics Institute for an interdisciplinary discussion on recent reassessments of the threat posed by nuclear winter.
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FHIs Anders Sandberg and Rebecca Roache (former FHI James Martin Research Fellow), together with Matthew Liao (former ISE Deputy Director) defend their controversial paper ‘Human Engineering and Climate Change’ forthcoming in Ethics, Policy & Environment
Dr. Anders Sandberg and Dr. Stuart Armstrong from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology and the Future of Humanity Institute recently met with researchers from the 
