After eight years of service—since the founding of the World Transhumanist Association’s Board of Directors in 2001—IEETers Nick Bostrom, James Hughes, George Dvorsky and Mike Treder are stepping down from the Board. IEETers Ben Goertzel and Mike LaTorra will remain on the Board, and Ben will be Chair of the Board in 2010. IEET intern Kristi Scott and IEET fellow Natasha Vita-More are running in the Humanity+ Board election next week.
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Giulio Prisco on 01/09 at 06:08 AM
Thanks to Nick, James and Mike for their great, excellent work on the Humanity+ Board.
This seems a formal "divorce" between the IEET and Humanity+, and I hope we will see less crap like "[the IEET is] a stealthy organization seeking to help legitimize the institutional positions and media reputations of key members of the World Transhumanist Organization" -- which still appears on the IEET wikipedia page.
The IEET is a practical technoprogressive organization, working for safe, equitable consequences of emerging technologies, where different points of view, including but not limited to transhumanism, are represented. I hope the IEET will win more and more recognition as an important voice in the world of mainstream policy making.
I hope Humanity+, under the leadership of Ben and the new Board, will affirm its core identity of a transhumanist organization focused on radical and visionary futurism. I look forward to voting next week.
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