George Dvorsky

George Dvorsky serves as Chair of the IEET Board of Directors and also heads our Rights of Non-Human Persons program. As Canada’s leading agenda-driven futurist/activist and an award-winning blogger, he writes and speaks widely about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology.

George is the Director of Operations for Commune Media, an advertising and marketing firm that specializes in marketing science. He is the co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association and served on the Board of Directors for the Humanity Plus from 2004-06. George was the organizing chair for TransVision 2004, an international conference addressing the scientific, political and social issues surrounding human biotechnology.

George has been interviewed by such publications as The Guardian, the BBC, Radio Free Europe, and Beliefnet. He made an appearance on the CBC’s The Hour and has been profiled in NOW and This Magazine. He has also written for such publications as The Humanist, Canadian Freethinker, Cryonics Magazine and various Thomson & Gale university texts. He is also an accomplished music performer, composer and recording engineer.

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Sentient Developments

Changizi: Humans, Version 3.0

Researchers: Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin

Boosting the brains of animals

Why Dyson Spheres make the Fermi Paradox worse

Nature: UK sets sights on gene therapy in eggs

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Articles

"Video-gaming Pets, the Future of Nonhuman Animals, and Cultural Uplift"   Wanderlust  Jan 27, 2012

"Report: Chimps ‘largely unessential as research subjects’"   Sentient Developments  Dec 31, 2011

"Dysonian Approach to SETI: A Fruitful Middle Ground"   JBIS 64: 156-165  Dec 1, 2011

"Is the Adderall shortage on account of rampant off-label use?"   Sentient Developments  Dec 1, 2011

"Propaganda 2.0 and the Rise of ‘Narrative Networks’"   Sentient Developments  Oct 19, 2011

"Exploring the potential for alternative worlds at Burning Man"   Sentient Developments  Sep 17, 2011

"On the Pernicious De-Radicalization of the Radical Future"   Sentient Developments  Aug 23, 2011

"“Careful. Human no like smart ape.”"   Sentient Developments  Aug 13, 2011

"The Ethics of Animal Enhancement"   Sentient Developments  Jul 29, 2011

"Hear that? It’s the Singularity coming"   Sentient Developments  Jul 3, 2011

"Primal Transhumanism"   Sentient Developments  Jun 9, 2011

"Designer Psychologies: Moving Beyond Neurotypicality"   Sentient Developments  May 29, 2011

"“Transhumanism Meets Design” Conference Recap: Beyond enhancement"   Sentient Developments  May 27, 2011

"Criticism of the IEET’s Rights of Non-Human Persons Program"   Sentient Developments  May 5, 2011

"Revisiting Yevgeny Zamyatin’s “We” (1921)"   Sentient Developments  Apr 6, 2011

"Mourning the Death of Her Baby"   Sentient Developments  Mar 30, 2011

"What do we mean by the “rights” of the nonhuman person?"   Sentient Developments  Mar 22, 2011

"Remembering Robert Bradbury"   Sentient Developments  Mar 6, 2011

"Putting an End to Dolphin Exploitation at Aquatic Theme Parks"   Sentient Developments  Feb 21, 2011

"SAI in the Material World"   Sentient Developments  Feb 9, 2011

"Genetic Architecture"   Sentient Developments  Jan 25, 2011

"#1: Why Stephen Hawking—and everyone else—is wrong about alien threats"   Ethical Technology  Dec 31, 2010

"#3: Five Reasons the Copenhagen Climate Conference Failed"   Ethical Technology  Dec 30, 2010

"Not So Superficial: Rethinking cosmetic enhancements"   Sentient Developments  Dec 20, 2010

"How to Engineer a Zombie Virus"   Sentient Developments  Dec 18, 2010

"#21: There’s More to Singularity Studies Than Kurzweil"   Ethical Technology  Dec 11, 2010

"Final Transforming Humanity talk: Can Humanity Survive Evolutionary Engineering?"   Ethical Technology  Dec 4, 2010

"Live-blogging from the Transforming Humanity Conference: Emerging Tech, Hybrid Mice and Smart Drugs"   Ethical Technology  Dec 4, 2010

"Live-blogging from the Transforming Humanity Conference: Neuroethics and Biopolitics"   Ethical Technology  Dec 4, 2010

"Live-blogging from the Transforming Humanity Conference: The Left Bio-Cons Open Fire"   Ethical Technology  Dec 4, 2010

"Live-blogging from the Transforming Humanity Conference Day 1 Part 2"   Ethical Technology  Dec 3, 2010

"Live-blogging from the Transforming Humanity Conference Day 1 Part 1"   Ethical Technology  Dec 3, 2010

"A leftist reaction to the commercialization of space"   Sentient Developments  Nov 21, 2010

"The financial time bomb of longer lives?"   Sentient Developments  Nov 18, 2010

"Revisiting the proto-transhumanists: Diderot and Condorcet"   Sentient Developments  Nov 11, 2010

"The quantified self: 6 tools to help you get started"   Sentient Developments  Nov 6, 2010

"The Most Significant Tech of the Next 20 Years"   Sentient Developments  Nov 4, 2010

"Is low sex drive a disorder? It is if you think it is"   Sentient Developments  Oct 31, 2010

"Designing Lions to Lie with Lambs"   Sentient Developments  Oct 28, 2010

"It’s a control thing: Religion and human reproduction"   Sentient Developments  Oct 19, 2010

"Dedication to Healthy Foods Considered an Eating Disorder"   Sentient Developments  Oct 12, 2010

"Novae produce gamma-rays. Damn."   Sentient Developments  Sep 30, 2010

"The Future of Space Telescopes"   Sentient Developments  Sep 23, 2010

"SETI on the Lookout for Artificial Intelligence"   Sentient Developments  Sep 15, 2010

"Reverse Engineering the Human Brain to Achieve AI"   Sentient Developments  Sep 8, 2010

"Helping the Chilean miners survive with space science"   Sentient Developments  Aug 29, 2010

"There’s More to Singularity Studies Than Kurzweil"   Sentient Developments  Aug 27, 2010

"Making brains: Reverse engineering the human brain to achieve AI"   Sentient Developments  Aug 22, 2010

"Gelernter’s ‘dream logic’ and the quest for artificial intelligence"   Sentient Developments  Jul 16, 2010

"Intersexed Athlete Gets OK to Compete as a Woman"   Sentient Developments  Jul 11, 2010

"Are space aliens a threat to Earth?"   Ethical Technology  May 5, 2010

"Why Stephen Hawking—and everyone else—is wrong about alien threats"   Sentient Developments  May 2, 2010

"Rebooting Haiti: Eliminating poverty to reduce the impacts of disasters"   Sentient Developments  Feb 1, 2010

"Intersex Athletes and the IOC"   Sentient Developments  Jan 21, 2010

"Five Reasons the Copenhagen Climate Conference Failed"   Sentient Developments  Jan 8, 2010

"Avatar: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"   Sentient Developments  Dec 24, 2009

"Let’s Get Metaphysical: How our ongoing existence could appear increasingly absurd"   Sentient Developments  Nov 12, 2009

"Cognitive liberty and right to one’s mind"   Sentient Developments  Oct 20, 2009

"Limits to the Biolibertarian Impulse"   Sentient Developments  Oct 15, 2009

"New Assistive Walking Device"   Sentient Developments  Sep 13, 2009

"Postgendered athletes in sports: Should intersexed persons be allowed to compete?"   Sentient Developments  Sep 11, 2009

"A pill for longer life?"   Sentient Developments  Jul 14, 2009

"The ‘end of science’ my ass"   Sentient Developments  Jul 7, 2009

"Exploring transhumanist themes in Battlestar Galactica: Caprica"   Sentient Developments  Jun 30, 2009

"Transhumanism and the ‘Intelligence Principle’"   Sentient Developments  Jun 23, 2009

"“Keeping an Open Mind is a Virtue, but not so Open that Your Brains Fall Out.”"   Astrogator's Logs  Jun 15, 2009

"Existential Movie War"   Ethical Technology  Jun 8, 2009

"The Top 10 Existential Movies of All Time"   Sentient Developments  Jun 7, 2009

"Welcome to the Machine, Part 5: Simulation taxonomy"   Sentient Developments  Jun 4, 2009

"A World Without Suffering?"   Sentient Developments  May 2, 2009

"What is a Person?"   Sentient Developments  Apr 28, 2009

"Welcome to the Machine, Part 4: Kurzweil’s nano neural nets"   Sentient Developments  Apr 17, 2009

"Welcome to the Machine, Part 3: The Simulation Argument"   Sentient Developments  Apr 10, 2009

"Welcome to the Machine, Part 2: Descartes’s malicious demon"   Sentient Developments  Apr 9, 2009

"Welcome to the Machine, Part 1: The ethics of simulated beings"   Sentient Developments  Apr 9, 2009

"Aldous Huxley on Cognitive Liberty in 1958"   Sentient Developments  Apr 2, 2009

"The perils of nuclear disarmament: How relinquishment could result in disaster"   Sentient Developments  Mar 31, 2009

"When superheros run amok: Exploring posthuman and technological themes in Watchmen"   Sentient Developments  Mar 30, 2009

"What is “Uplift?”"   Sentient Developments  Mar 24, 2009

"Risks posed by political extremism"   Sentient Developments  Mar 19, 2009

"Futurist thinking at the Pentagon"   Sentient Developments  Mar 18, 2009

"The ‘Rare Earth’ delusion"   Sentient Developments  Mar 8, 2009

"The Immaculate Designer Prosthesis"   Sentient Developments  Feb 23, 2009

"Demand for human trait selection creates a market"   Sentient Developments  Feb 17, 2009

"When 8 is more than enough: It’s time for some meaningful regulation"   Sentient Developments  Feb 2, 2009

"Rethinking IQ: The rise of ‘rational intelligence’"   Sentient Developments  Feb 1, 2009

"Most parents not quite ready to have ‘designer babies’—but demand exists"   Sentient Developments  Jan 28, 2009

"Towards a ‘largely robotic’ battlefield"   Sentient Developments  Jan 20, 2009

"We Have the Technology to Rebuild Ourselves"     Jan 9, 2009

"Pleasure’s perils: Why the ‘sex chip’ may not be such a good idea"   Sentient Developments  Jan 3, 2009

"Future risks and the challenge to democracy"     Dec 24, 2008

"Most people favor reproductive technologies—but not sex selection"   Sentient Developments  Dec 18, 2008

"Commission warns of nuclear or biological weapons attack by 2013"   Sentient Developments  Dec 5, 2008

"Aspergers as Gift"   Sentient Developments  Nov 27, 2008

"Deep brain stimulation induces vivid memories"   Sentient Developments  Nov 23, 2008

"Terry Grossman wants to help you to live forever"   Sentient Developments  Nov 21, 2008

"An Obama reality check"   Sentient Developments  Nov 7, 2008

"Republican calls for Palin in 2012 reveal a deep malaise"   Sentient Developments  Nov 6, 2008

"Humans have not stopped evolving"   Sentient Developments  Oct 15, 2008

"Michael Phelps: ‘Naturally’ transhuman"   Sentient Developments  Aug 19, 2008