WTA Statements and Position Papers
Bostrom Responds to Fukuyama’s Assertion that Transhumanism is World’s Most Dangerous Idea
Friday, September 10, 2004
Transhumanism: The World’s Most Dangerous Idea?
Nick Bostrom (Sept 10, 2004)
“What idea, if embraced, would pose the greatest threat to the welfare of humanity?” This was the question posed by the editors of Foreign Policy in the September/October issue to eight prominent policy intellectuals, among them Francis Fukuyama, professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and member of the President’s Council on Bioethics.
And Fukuyama’s answer? Transhumanism, “a strange liberation movement” whose “crusaders aim much higher than civil rights campaigners, feminists, or gay-rights advocates.” This movement, he says, wants “nothing less than to liberate the human race from its biological constraints.”
Older Statements
- Action Agenda Adopted [ October 19, 2006 ]
- Statement on Totalitarianism [ November 04, 2005 ]
- Statement on Artificial Intelligence - Adopted March 1, 2005 [ March 01, 2005 ]
- Bostrom responds to TechRev attacks on Aubrey de Grey; TR editor responds to H+ community outrage [ January 15, 2005 ]
- Position on Human Germline Genetic Modification [ December 26, 2004 ]
- Bostrom Responds to Fukuyama’s Assertion that Transhumanism is World’s Most Dangerous Idea [ September 10, 2004 ]
- Molecular Manufacturing Research Offers Great Promise, and Deserves Public Debate [ April 25, 2003 ]
- Clones Are People Too, Group Says [ December 25, 2002 ]
- WTA STATEMENT ON NEO-NAZISM AND UFO CULTS [ February 25, 2002 ]
- WTA STATEMENT ON RACIALISM []
- WTA STATEMENT ON CLONING []
