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James Hughes

James Hughes Ph.D., the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, is a bioethicist and sociologist at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut where he teaches health policy and serves as Director of Institutional Research and Planning. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he also taught bioethics at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Dr. Hughes is author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future , and is working on a second book tentatively titled Cyborg Buddha. Since 1999 he has produced a syndicated weekly radio program, Changesurfer Radio.

He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of Humanity+, the Neuroethics Society, the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and the Working Group on Ethics and Technology at Yale University.

Dr. Hughes speaks on medical ethics, health care policy and future studies worldwide.

Dr. Hughes is available for media interviews.

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Books


Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future by James Hughes (2004)


Articles


"Compassionate AI and Selfless Robots: A Buddhist Approach"   Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics  Dec 1, 2011

"Contradictions of the Enlightenment: Liberal Individualism versus the Erosion of Personal Identity"   Ethical Technology  Nov 19, 2011

"Some Brief Thoughts on How to Ensure a Good Future"   Ethical Technology  Jul 5, 2011

"Anders Sandberg on Progress in Mitigating Asteroid Impact Risks"   Ethical Technology  May 13, 2011

"#10: Problems of Transhumanism — Introduction"   Ethical Technology  Dec 22, 2010

"#23: Belief in Progress vs. Rational Uncertainty"   Ethical Technology  Dec 9, 2010

"#26: Liberal Democracy vs. Technocratic Absolutism"   Ethical Technology  Dec 6, 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: What do we do with Posthumans?"   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

"Never Say Die: A Slate/New America Seminar on Radical Life Extension"   New America Foundation  Nov 16, 2010

"Skrying Excremental Fans from Idaho and Manhattan"   Ethical Technology  Aug 31, 2010

"What are Reproductive Rights?"   Ethical Technology  Aug 13, 2010

"Apocalypse No"   Ethical Technology  Jun 25, 2010

"Futurisms Takes My Favorite Picture at H+"   Pop Transhumanism  Jun 21, 2010

"Day 2 Afternoon Liveblogging H Summit"   Ethical Technology  Jun 13, 2010

"Day 2 Morning Liveblogging H+ Summit"   Ethical Technology  Jun 13, 2010

"Day 1 Afternoon of H+ Summit: Rise of the Citizen Scientist"   Ethical Technology  Jun 12, 2010

"Day 1 Morning of H+ Summit: Rise of the Citizen Scientist"   Ethical Technology  Jun 12, 2010

"Defining Disability in an Age of Enhancement"   Ethical Technology  May 31, 2010

"Beyond the Human Race — and “Human-Racism”"   io9  May 12, 2010

"Responding to Ron Bailey on Health Care"   Ethical Technology  Apr 20, 2010

"Problems of Transhumanism: Belief in Progress vs. Rational Uncertainty"   Ethical Technology  Mar 1, 2010

"Problems of Transhumanism: Moral Universalism vs. Relativism"   Ethical Technology  Feb 8, 2010

"Problems of Transhumanism: Liberal Democracy vs. Technocratic Absolutism"   Ethical Technology  Jan 23, 2010

"Problems of Transhumanism: Atheism vs. Naturalist Theologies"   Ethical Technology  Jan 14, 2010

"Problems of Transhumanism: The Unsustainable Autonomy of Reason"   Ethical Technology  Jan 8, 2010

"Problems of Transhumanism: Introduction"   Ethical Technology  Jan 6, 2010

"TechnoProgressive Biopolitics and Human Enhancement"   Progress in Bioethics, ed. Jonathan Moreno and Sam Berger, 2010, MIT Press, pp. 163-188  Dec 10, 2009

"Technoprogressive Thankfulness"   Ethical Technology  Nov 26, 2009

"Stefano Vaj and the Complicated Politics of Italian Transhumanism"   Ethical Technology  Oct 4, 2009

"An Epistle on H+ to the Italian Catholics"   Humanity+  Sep 10, 2009

"Bioethics and Health Insurance"   Ethical Technology  Aug 31, 2009

"Social Pressures for Technological Mood Management"   Free Inquiry  Jul 30, 2009

"On Democratic Transhumanism"   Re-Public  Jun 24, 2009

"Moral Relativism vs. Moral Authority"   Ethical Technology  Jun 5, 2009

"Toward a Technoprogressive Manifesto"   Ethical Technology  May 30, 2009

"Five Major Changes to American Life By 2020"   Ethical Technology  May 21, 2009

"Choosing Our Imaginary Communities and Identities"   Ethical Technology  May 18, 2009

"Embodiment, Compassion and Secular Ethics"   Ethical Technology  Apr 16, 2009

"Transhumanist politics, 1700 to the near future"   Re-Public  Apr 10, 2009

"Human Enhancement & Nanotechnology Liveblogging Part 1"   Ethical Technology  Mar 28, 2009

"Strengthening Transnational Governance to Mitigate Risks"   Accelerating Future  Dec 8, 2008

"Libertopian Doublethink on the Singularity"   Ethical Technology  Oct 27, 2008

"Review: Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population"   Times Higher Education  Jun 9, 2008

"Millennial Tendencies in Responses to Apocalyptic Threats"   in Global Catastrophic Risks eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic. Oxford University Press. 2008. pgs 72-89  Apr 14, 2008

"Postgenderism: Beyond the Gender Binary (IEET White Paper 03)"   IEET White Paper Series  Mar 20, 2008

"Pondering the Future of Death Over A Mojito"   New Scientist  Dec 7, 2007

"Promoting BioFuturist Policy Brainstorming Among the Young"   Ethical Technology  Nov 30, 2007

"Virtue Engineering"   People Database  Nov 20, 2007

"Waiting for the Great Leap…Forward?"   People's Database  Nov 2, 2007

"Situationist Challenge to Cyborg Buddhism?"   Ethical Technology  Oct 22, 2007

"Technocitizenship, innovation and the biopolitics of medical devices"   (an edited version was published in Medical Device Daily)  Sep 26, 2007

"The struggle for a smarter world"   Futures 39(8) Oct 2007: 942-954  Aug 8, 2007

"Global Technology Regulation and Potentially Apocalyptic Technological Threats"   forthcoming in Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology  Jul 2, 2007

"Ensuring Universal Access to Enhancing Technologies"   Ethical Technology  Jun 27, 2007

"Sex Selection and Women’s Reproductive Rights"   Ethical Technology  May 10, 2007

"Hacia nuevas formas de trans-espiritualidad"   Tendencias21  Apr 18, 2007

"On The Compatibility of Religion and Transhumanism"   Global Spiral 8(2)  Apr 1, 2007

"Buddhist Bioethics"   Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition Edited by R.E. Ashcroft, A. Dawson, H. Draper and J.R. McMillan. John Wiley.  Mar 9, 2007

"Christology and the Human Body"   Ethical Technology  Mar 6, 2007

"From Virtual Sex to No Sex?"   Ethical Technology  Feb 28, 2007

"Left BioCon Futurist Scenario Building"   Ethical Technology  Feb 26, 2007

"Träumen mit Diderot"   Telepolis (in German and English)  Feb 1, 2007

"Dreaming with Diderot"   Cyborg Democracy  Jan 14, 2007

"What comes after humans?"   New Scientist  Nov 16, 2006

"Human Enhancement and the Emergent Technopolitics of the 21st Century (excerpt)"   in Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies in Society edited by Bainbridge, W.S. & M.C. Roco. 2006. Springer  May 19, 2006

"Beyond the medical model of gender dysphoria to morphological self-determination"   Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Journal, Winter 2006   Apr 1, 2006

"Saving Human Rights from the Human Racists"   Betterhumans  Mar 27, 2006

"The Illusiveness Of Immortality"   Death And Anti-Death, Volume 3  Feb 17, 2006

"Universal Health Care Vouchers"   Ethical Technology  Feb 2, 2006

"Technoprogressive Social Policy in the Wake of Katrina"   Ethical Technology  Sep 10, 2005

"BIG and Generational Equity in an Automated and Life-Extended Future"   presented at USBIG 2005  May 7, 2005

"Drawing a Stem Cell Line in the Sand"   Betterhumans  Jan 12, 2005

"Transhumanism and Unitarian Universalism:  Beginning the Dialogue"   Unitarian Universalist Society East  Dec 14, 2004

"A Conversation with Dr. James Hughes"   WorldChanging  Dec 1, 2004

"Human Enhancement on the Agenda"   BetterHumans  Oct 31, 2004

"Cover Everyone and Cure Aging: Counterintuitive answers to healthcare inflation"   BetterHumans  Oct 13, 2004

"Technologies of Self-Perfection"   Betterhumans  Sep 22, 2004

"Engineering Better Citizens"   Betterhumans  Sep 1, 2004

"Humanism for personhood: against human-racism: a new fight for human rights"   Free Inquiry  Jun 1, 2004

"George W. Bush Is Getting Brain-jacked"   Betterhumans  Mar 9, 2004

"Embrace the End of Work"   Betterhumans  Feb 24, 2004

"The Death of Death"   in Brain Death and Disorders of Consciousness. 2004. eds. Calixto Machado and D. Alan Shewmon. Kluwer. pps. 79-88.  Feb 10, 2004

"Monsters in the Media"   Betterhumans  Dec 23, 2003

"Getting Paid in Our Jobless Future"   Betterhumans  Sep 22, 2003

"Beyond Gay Marriage"   Betterhumans  Jul 23, 2003

"Reconciling Humans, Nature and Technology"   Betterhumans  Apr 14, 2003

"Reconciliando humanos, natureza e tecnologia"   Folha Verde  Apr 14, 2003

"The Future of Sex"   Betterhumans  Feb 9, 2003

"Democratic Transhumanism 2.0"   Transhumanity  Dec 25, 2002

"Cloning As A Valid Reproductive Choice"   Hartford Courant  Oct 21, 2002

"The Politics of Transhumanism 2.0"   Changesurfer.com  Mar 1, 2002

"Medical ethics through the Star Trek lens"   in Literature and Medicine 20.1 (2001) 26-38   May 7, 2001

"The Future of Death:  Cryonics and the Telos of Liberal Individualism"   Fourth Alcor Conference on Life Extension Technologies - June 17-18, 2000 - Asilomar, CA  Jun 17, 2000

"The Intelligent Other in Science, Fantasy and Horror Fiction, 1895 to the Present"   Ethical Technology  Aug 2, 1999


Upcoming Appearances


The Moral Brain: What Is It? Can It Be Enhanced? (WSQ Campus, New York University, NYC, NY, USA - Mar 30, 2012)


Recent Multimedia


Metabods  Changesurfer Radio   2012-01-28

Monsanto and Genetically Modified Crops pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2011-12-24

Monsanto and Genetically Modified Crops pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2011-12-24

The Bodhisattva’s Brain pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2011-12-20

The Bodhisattva’s Brain pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2011-12-20

A Short History of the Future  Changesurfer Radio   2011-12-16

Beyond the Soul  Turing Church Online   2011-12-13

Do Christians Need Bodies?  Changesurfer Radio   2011-12-09

What is Character? pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2011-11-28

What is Character? pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2011-11-28

The Future of Democratic Equality pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2011-11-15

The Future of Democratic Equality pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2011-11-15

Open Source Warfare and Resilient Communities  Changesurfer Radio   2011-10-29

The Ethics of Creating Conscious Beings  Changesurfer Radio   2011-09-29

The Case for Mars  Changesurfer Radio   2011-09-20

100 Plus: The Coming Age of Longevity pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2011-09-19

100 Plus: The Coming Age of Longevity pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2011-09-19

Class Analysis  Changesurfer Radio   2011-09-16

Robopocalypse  Changesurfer Radio   2011-07-13

The Future of Freedom pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2011-07-08

The Future of Freedom pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2011-07-07

Seeing the Future in a Robot’s Face pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2011-07-06

Seeing the Future in a Robot’s Face pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2011-07-05

The Artificial Ape pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2011-07-05

Understanding Our Technological Future  Equal Time For Freethought   2011-07-03

Buddhism and Transhumanism: The Technologies of Self-Perfection  Changesurfer Radio   2011-07-01

The Artificial Ape pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2011-06-20

Tech for People, not for Corporate Control  Changesurfer Radio   2011-06-18

The TechnoHuman Condition  Changesurfer Radio   2011-06-11

When Gadgets Betray Us  Changesurfer Radio   2011-05-28

Will Enlightened Posthumans Establish Post-Capitalist Utopias? pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2011-05-27

Buddhism, Politics and the Future of the Mind pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2011-05-17

Transhumanism, Religion and Science  Changesurfer Radio   2011-05-11

What Technology Wants  Changesurfer Radio   2011-05-06

An Optimist’s Tour of the Future  Changesurfer Radio   2011-04-28

The Compatibility of Religion and Transhumanism  Transhumanism and Spirituality Conference   2011-04-24

Dirty Liberals! Cleanliness Priming of Moral Cognition  Changesurfer Radio   2011-04-05

In Defense of Dolphins pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2011-04-05

In Defense of Dolphins pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2011-03-28

Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding  Changesurfer Radio   2011-03-21

The Future and Hughes  The Future and You   2011-03-09

The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2011-03-07

Singularity 101  Colin McEnroe Show   2011-02-08

The Net, Brains & Civilizational Resilience  Changesurfer Radio   2011-01-20

The Forgotten Radicalism of the Enlightenment pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2011-01-09

Humanity’s End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2010-12-22

Humanity’s End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2010-12-22

The Challenges of a Graying World  Changesurfer Radio   2010-12-20

Four Scenarios For The Coming Collapse of The American Empire pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2010-12-16

Four Scenarios For The Coming Collapse of The American Empire pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2010-12-16

Armageddon Science: The Science of Mass Destruction  Changesurfer Radio   2010-12-08

Transhumanism and Virtue pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2010-11-05

Faith and Science pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2010-11-05

Kurzweil, Turkle, Arkin, Hughes on being a Human Being in an Inhuman Age  Hannah Arendt Center for Ethical and Political Thinking at Bard College   2010-10-31

Faith and Science pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2010-10-28

Becoming Gods pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2010-10-08

Becoming Gods pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2010-10-08

Mapping the Universe  Changesurfer Radio   2010-09-29

Gay Marriage and Global Transhumanism  Changesurfer Radio   2010-09-26

Transhumanism and Virtue  Changesurfer Radio   2010-09-25

Technoprogressive Disaster Preparedness Pt2  Changesurfer Radio   2010-08-19

Technoprogressive Disaster Preparedness Pt1  Changesurfer Radio   2010-08-19

Falling Birth Rates and Virtual Sex  Changesurfer Radio   2010-08-03

The Progressives and the Virtue of the Small  Changesurfer Radio   2010-08-02

The History and Future of TechnoPolicy  Changesurfer Radio   2010-08-01

Translating Genomics into Longer Healthier Lives  Changesurfer Radio   2010-07-31

The Making of the Unabomber  Changesurfer Radio   2010-07-20

The Culture of Despair  Changesurfer Radio   2010-07-19

Mindfulness, Acid & Neuropolitics  Changesurfer Radio   2010-07-17

Dr. J. Holds Forth  World Affairs Monthly   2010-06-20

The History and Future of Medical Technology  Changesurfer Radio   2010-06-20

My Daddy’s Name Is Donor  Changesurfer Radio   2010-06-19

The Decline of Utopianism and the Public Intellectuals  Changesurfer Radio   2010-06-05

Democratic Transhumanism and Empowerment Through Technology  Tunxis Community College   2010-06-03

Join Us At H+ Summit at Harvard  Humanity+   2010-05-29

Inequality, Basic Income, the Brain  Changesurfer Radio   2010-05-15

Should We Fear Contact With Aliens?  Changesurfer Radio   2010-05-12

Human Past, Present and Future Cast in Doubt  Changesurfer Radio   2010-05-08

Is Citizenship only for Humans?  Changesurfer Radio   2010-04-01

Manufacturing Depression  Changesurfer Radio   2010-03-30

George Grant and Transhumanism  Changesurfer Radio   2010-03-14

Welcome to 2030  Colin McEnroe Show   2010-03-13

Occult America  Changesurfer Radio   2010-03-06

Living Longer in an Extreme Future  Changesurfer Radio   2010-02-28

The Malthusian Catastrophe  Changesurfer Radio   2010-02-20

Technologies of Self-Awareness  Changesurfer Radio   2010-02-20

Reclaiming the Enlightenment pt 2  Changesurfer Radio   2010-02-13

Buddhism and Cognitive Enhancement pt 2  Changesurfer Radio   2010-02-13

Reclaiming the Enlightenment pt. 1  Changesurfer Radio   2010-02-07

Invented Languages  Changesurfer Radio   2010-02-06

Is There a Pro-Mutant Trend in Popular Culture?  Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar   2010-02-01

Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?  Colin McEnroe Show   2010-01-16

A Long Bright Future  Changesurfer Radio   2010-01-09

Do We Own Our Bodies?  Changesurfer Radio   2010-01-09

Biopolitics of Culture Diavlog  Bloggingheads   2009-12-26

Cinema’s Amazons and Cyborgs  Changesurfer Radio   2009-12-20

Open Source Warfare and Resilient Communities  Changesurfer Radio   2009-12-19

Remembering Doc Savage  Changesurfer Radio   2009-12-14

Buddhism and Cognitive Enhancement pt 1  Changesurfer Radio   2009-11-14

Neuroengineering the Future  Changesurfer Radio   2009-10-31


News


IEET Consults for Japanese Neurotech Consortium (Feb 02, 2012)

IEET Donation Premiums (Jan 12, 2012)

Big Changes Afoot for the IEET in 2012 (Dec 16, 2011)

Hughes and Wallach essays in Patrick’s new collection on Robot Ethics (Dec 15, 2011)

An End of Year Appeal for Support (Dec 11, 2011)

Hughes and Blackford featured in Free Inquiry (Dec 10, 2011)

An Appeal for Support (Dec 14, 2010)

New JET article by Nicholas Agar (Nov 29, 2010)

Fellows Model Transhuman Diligence (Aug 09, 2010)

Hughes Citings in the New York Times (Jul 11, 2010)

Ben Goertzel offering accredited summer course on The Singularity through Rutgers University (Mar 21, 2010)

Audio and Slides from Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar Posted (Feb 04, 2010)

IEET Year in Review (Jan 02, 2010)

Emergence - IEET News for August 30, 2009 (Aug 30, 2009)

Emergence - IEET News for August 22, 2009 (Aug 22, 2009)

Emergence - IEET News for August 2, 2009 (Aug 03, 2009)

Mark Walker and James Hughes on Cognitive Enhancement in Free Inquiry (Jul 29, 2009)

Emergence - IEET News for July 2009 (Jul 25, 2009)

Emergence - IEET News for June 20, 2009 (Jun 20, 2009)

Emergence - IEET News for June 7, 2009 (Jun 07, 2009)

EMERGENCE - IEET News for March 20, 2009 (Mar 20, 2009)

J. Hughes on Designer Babies in Wired (Mar 09, 2009)

J. Hughes Quoted in Article on Wired Website (Feb 26, 2009)

EMERGENCE - IEET News for Feb 6, 2009 (Feb 07, 2009)

Update on Humanity+ Board Elections (Jan 16, 2009)

Emergence - IEET News for Dec 26, 2008 (Dec 26, 2008)

EMERGENCE - IEET News for Dec 8, 2008 (Dec 09, 2008)

Hughes Praises Art Caplan in Discover Magazine (Nov 17, 2008)

George’s notes on Cyborg Buddha presentation at Convergence (Nov 16, 2008)

Reports from Global Catastrophic Risks conference in Mountain View CA (Nov 16, 2008)

EMERGENCE - IEET News for Nov 9, 2008 (Nov 10, 2008)

Emergence - IEET News for October 2008 (Sep 30, 2008)

Emergence - IEET News for Sept 2, 2008 (Sep 02, 2008)

Hughes, de Grey and Scarlato featured in Hartford Advocate (Aug 06, 2008)

EMERGENCE - IEET News for July 31, 2008 (Jul 31, 2008)

Some Pics from the Catastrophic Risk Conference at Oxford (Jul 29, 2008)

IEET News for June 14, 2008 (Jun 14, 2008)

Emergence - IEET News for May 15, 2008 (May 15, 2008)

Emergence - IEET News for May 1, 2008 (May 01, 2008)

The Past and Future of Evolution (Apr 20, 2008)

Hughes Talk on H+ & Religion top-rated at Thoughtware.tv (Apr 16, 2008)

Discussion Forums, Commenting and Collaborative Thinktankery (Apr 07, 2008)

Ashley X’s Parents Declare Treatment a Success (Mar 16, 2008)

Longevity Dividend Course: April 21-June 29 (Feb 28, 2008)

IEET is 501c3 Tax-Exempt and Tax-Deductible (Jan 30, 2008)

$25,000 “Matching Grant” Drive for WTA (Dec 16, 2007)

Thousands of Evo Art Portraits of Hughes and Bostrom (Dec 01, 2007)

Spring IEET Distance Learning Course on the Longevity Dividend (Nov 28, 2007)

Hughes, Bostrom Respond to Agar in Hastings Center Report (Oct 22, 2007)

Hughes interview on Radio Netherlands transcribed (Oct 11, 2007)

Journal of Evolution and Technology June 2007, 16(1): Contents (Jun 10, 2007)

H+ and Hughes in Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Hastings Center Report (May 22, 2007)

Betterhumans Relaunching With IEET Columnists (Apr 07, 2007)

IEET Launches Cyborg Buddha Project (Mar 25, 2007)

Welcome to new IEET interns (Mar 17, 2007)

IEET Web Viewage Climbing (Mar 17, 2007)

IEET Cyborg Life Project (Mar 17, 2007)

IEET Book Projects (Mar 11, 2007)

Ashley X, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, XING and Bald Women (Jan 12, 2007)

Call for Papers and Early Reg for IEET-IHEU Rights Conf in NYC - May 11-13 (Jan 12, 2007)

Hughes on Paula Zahn show Monday, Jan 8 @ 8pm EST to discuss Ashley X (Jan 08, 2007)

CSPO Cognitive Enhancement Policy Seminar Report Available (Dec 12, 2006)

IEET & IHEU Event at United Nations on Cognitive Liberty A Great Success (Dec 08, 2006)

Changes in the IEET communications strategy (Nov 23, 2006)

Hughes, Bostrom, de Grey & Campa in Italian documentary (Nov 21, 2006)

Hughes quoted on virtue engineering of marriage (Nov 20, 2006)

Hughes quoted on cell-phone implants (Oct 04, 2006)

Pursuing the Longevity Dividend: Scientific Goals for an Aging World (Sep 12, 2006)

Hughes speaks at remarkable left-right seminar in Stockholm (Aug 16, 2006)

Hughes on the Rumble in Albany (Jul 14, 2006)

Hughes quoted by Christian Science Monitor (Jul 12, 2006)

Audio of IEET Programs talk in SL online (Jul 04, 2006)

Christian Bioethics Group Denounces NIH Funding of Enhancement Ethics (May 03, 2006)

Hughes participates in cognitive enhancement consultation for Sandia Labs (Apr 25, 2006)

Misanthropic deep ecology, existential risks and TechnoGaianism (Apr 03, 2006)

Majorities of Americans support universal healthcare, tech-pro policies (Mar 25, 2006)

IEET Convergencia in Madrid (Mar 12, 2006)

Rockin the Boskone (Feb 18, 2006)

Hughes, Rothblatt and de Grey slides online from Immortality conference in Atlanta (Feb 04, 2006)

Nanotechnology: Societal Implications (Nov 12, 2005)

Hughes, Joy, Ishiguro and Wilson on NPR Book Program (Nov 01, 2005)

IEET.org Reopens! (Nov 01, 2005)

Hughes to Address Hartford Drug Conference, Oct 22 (Sep 30, 2005)

Bostrom, Hughes and Prisco address Congress on Technology and Europe, Madrid, October 6, 2005 (Sep 29, 2005)

Naam on Berkeley Groks, Wasserman on Control of Emotion (Sep 14, 2005)

Changesurfer Radio: Critical Bio-Art (Aug 28, 2005)

Hughes speaks at Secular Students Association - Columbus Ohio - Aug 11-14, 2005 (Aug 13, 2005)

Hughes speaks at APLS Sept 1 and visiting D.C. Aug 31 - Sept 3 (Aug 07, 2005)

Treder & Hughes Participate in Terasem Meeting (Jul 22, 2005)

July 20, 2005 Terasem talks webcast (Jul 20, 2005)

Naam and Hughes Named Fellows of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (Jun 15, 2005)

Report on Hughes’ April 13 talk in Albany (Apr 15, 2005)


Past Appearances


Ben Goertzel, Natasha Vita-More, J. Hughes @ HumanityPlus Summit (New York, US - May 14, 2011)

J. Hughes & Aubrey de Grey on the Ethics of Life Extension @ Oxford Union (Oxford, UK - Nov 08, 2010)

Hughes @ Human Being in an Inhuman Age (Bard College, Red Hook, NY USA - Oct 22, 2010)

Hughes on Life Extension & H+ with Peter Singer &  Lee Silver @ Princeton University (Princeton University, Princeton NJ USA - Oct 11, 2010)

Hughes, Vita-More @ Transhumanism and Spirituality (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah USA - Oct 01, 2010)

Hughes, Dvorsky, deGrey, Goertzel, Vita-More, Lin and Naam @ H+ Summit (Cambridge, MA - Jun 12, 2010)

Hughes on “Defining Disability in an Age of Enhancement” (Schenectady, New York, USA - May 22, 2010)

James Hughes on “The Future of Women’s Education” (Hartford, Connecticut, USA - Apr 22, 2010)

J. Hughes on “When is Enhancement like a Gun?” @ Beyond the Body? Perspectives on Enhancement (Manchester, UK - Apr 10, 2010)

Hughes @ Technologies of Awareness: Buddhism and the New Mind Sciences (Northampton, MA - Apr 10, 2010)

J. Hughes on “Don’t Fear the Future: Democratic Transhumanism and Empowerment through Technology” (Farmington, Connecticut - Feb 18, 2010)

J. Hughes on “Can We Live Forever in Robot Bodies? and Other Ethical Challenges Posed by H+” (CCSU, New Britain, Connecticut, USA - Dec 07, 2009)

Humanity+ Summit (Eon Reality, Irvine, CA USA - Dec 05, 2009)

Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar (EON Reality, Irvine, CA, USA - Dec 04, 2009)

Hughes on “Virtue Engineering” (Yale University, New Haven, CT USA - Oct 07, 2009)

Hughes, Rothblatt, Kurzweil & Wallach @ Transbeman Screening @ Woodstock Film Festival (Woodstock, NY USA - Oct 02, 2009)

Hughes on “Science & Technology for Liberation” @ Think Galacticon (Chicago, Illinois USA - Jun 26, 2009)

The Case for Perfection (Hartford, CT USA - May 14, 2009)

Hughes, Glenn, Wallach @ Human Enhancement & Nanotechnology (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan - Mar 27, 2009)

Hughes, Scarlato on “The Ethics of Battlestar Galactica” (Hartford, CT USA - Feb 19, 2009)

Wallach on the role of reason in moral decisions (Trinity College, Hartford CT USA - Jan 15, 2009)

Hughes on Ethics in Business and the Health Care Industry (Houston, TX - Dec 02, 2008)

Hughes on “The Problems with Happiness” (Hartford, CT USA - Nov 20, 2008)

Hughes on “BioPolitics and the Technoprogressive Agenda: Yes We Can!” (UCSC Crown College, Santa Cruz, CA USA - Nov 17, 2008)

Hughes, LaTorra, Fauve, Cascio, Treder @ Convergence 08 (Mountain View, California - Nov 15, 2008)

GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization (Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - Nov 14, 2008)

Hughes @ Science, Christianity & the New Frontiers of Human Life (Blackstone, Virginia USA - Oct 20, 2008)

The Ethics of Human-Animal Chimera Research: Fact or Fiction (Hartford, CT USA - Oct 16, 2008)

Hughes on “Gene Therapy and Neurotechnologies to Enhance Human Virtues” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ USA - Oct 10, 2008)

Creating Ethically Sensitive Machines for Medical Use (Hartford, CT USA - Sep 18, 2008)

Hughes on The Future of Death (National Geographic Channel - Sep 02, 2008)

Hughes, Bostrom, Treder, Cirkovic @ Global Catastrophic Risks Conference (Oxford University, Oxford, UK - Jul 17, 2008)

Hughes @ World Humanist Congress (Washington, DC - Jun 06, 2008)

Hughes, Bainbridge @ The Future of Religions/Religions of the Future (Second Life - Jun 04, 2008)

Hughes @ Evolution in the 21st Century (Madison, Wisconsin, USA - Apr 17, 2008)

Hughes @ Center for Inquiry (Orlando, Florida - Feb 22, 2008)

Hughes on Future Neurotech for Future Problem Solvers (Marlborough, CT - Jan 09, 2008)

Hughes on FastForward Radio (Global/Virtual - Dec 23, 2007)

Hughes @ Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota - Nov 15, 2007)

Hughes @ The Future of our Species - evolution, disease and sustainable development (Heidelberg, Germany - Nov 02, 2007)

Hughes & François Berger on Human Enhancement (Paris, France - Oct 24, 2007)

Hughes @ Lawrence University (Appleton, WI USA - Oct 12, 2007)

Hughes @ Stem Cell Summit (Boston, MA USA - Oct 03, 2007)

Hughes addresses CT Assoc of Biology Teachers (Manchester CT USA - Sep 14, 2007)

Hughes, Cascio & Wallach @ Singularity Summit II (San Francisco, CA USA - Sep 08, 2007)

Hughes, de Grey, Bostrom and more @ Transvision 2007 (Chicago, IL USA - Jul 24, 2007)

Securing the Longevity Dividend: Building the Campaign for Anti-Aging Science (Chicago, Illinois - Jul 23, 2007)

Hughes @ Global Biotechnology Governance: Ethical and Political Challenges (Bryant University |Smithfield, RI, USA - Jul 20, 2007)

Hughes, Bostrom @ Progressive Bioethics Summit (Washington D.C. - Jul 12, 2007)

21st CENTURY RIGHTS (NYC, NY USA - May 11, 2007)

Seminar on Transhumanism and Religion in Second Life (Uvvy Island, Second Life - Apr 29, 2007)

Hughes on H+ & Human Nature (Tempe, Arizona USA - Apr 16, 2007)

Hughes,Glenn @ Nano & Human Enhancement (Dartmouth, NH, USA - Apr 14, 2007)

Hughes v. Murray: How Far Should We Go in Redesigning Humanity?” (Hoboken, NJ USA - Mar 21, 2007)

Hughes on Enhancement @ ET Baptist University (Marshall TX USA - Mar 05, 2007)

Hughes @ St. Scholastica on Enhancement (Duluth MN USA - Jan 23, 2007)

Hughes on Cognitive Liberty (NY, NY USA - Dec 01, 2006)

Hughes speaks at Ethics Ed Conf (New Hampshire, USA - Nov 16, 2006)

Hughes on “Liberty in the Neurotech Era” at UPenn (Philadelphia, PA USA - Sep 21, 2006)

Hughes on Liberty, Equality, Technology (Stockholm, Sweden - Aug 16, 2006)

Hughes to speak at ASBH Politics & Bioethics Conf (Albany, NY, USA - Jul 13, 2006)

Hughes speaks at Idea City (Toronto, Canada - Jun 21, 2006)

Hughes on enhancement - UC Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA, USA - May 25, 2006)

Hughes on ‘Politics of Human Enhancement’ (London, UK - Mar 17, 2006)

Bostrom, Hughes, de Grey at Human Enhancement (Oxford UK - Mar 14, 2006)

Hughes, Prisco, Treder & de Grey at Conf on Sci-Tech (Madrid, Spain - Mar 09, 2006)

Hughes speaks in Seattle (Portland State U, Seattle, WA USA - Feb 06, 2006)

IEET Director Hughes to speak at Re-Inventing Capitalism (NYC, NY USA - Dec 02, 2005)

Lecture on “Citizen Cyborg” by Dr Hughes (Trinity College, Hartford CT USA - Nov 30, 2005)

IEET Director Hughes (Cracow, Poland - Nov 22, 2005)

Hughes speaks in Prague (Prague, Czech Republic - Nov 21, 2005)

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