An address given at the Technoprogressive Opportunity conference, September 19-20, London, co-sponsored by London Futurists and the IEET.

By revisiting ancient practices of commemoration and contrasting them with today’s digital efforts to preserve personhood, this study argues that the classical model of earthly immortality – grounded ...

An address given at the Technoprogressive Opportunity conference, September 19-20, London, co-sponsored by London Futurists and the IEET.

As a Futurist, Public Thinker and Keynote Speaker my objective is the 5Ps: People, Planet, Purpose, Peace and Prosperity. My core mission is ensuring that we navigate the shift into the Intelligence…

Plus the Technoprogressive Opportunity Conference and Policy Book Project

Longevity is taking off, but regulatory oversight is essential to determining what works—and what doesn’t

Origin Genomics aims to prove that the potential benefits of its technology for editing disease-causing genes in human embryos outweigh the risks.

Episode 50 - Animal Testing This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J. dissect the rapid dismantling of the animal-testing paradigm. We explore the legal and political shifts sweeping the EU and the Uni...

YouTube video by Sublation Media with Douglas Lain

Following a viral resignation, the backlash against AI safety was sudden and swift. Various signs suggest an industry push is supporting it.

Zhao Levi’s journey from an “Anti-AI Manifesto” to a proposed DSA working group opens a larger question: Can workers govern the machines that may one day make wage labor optional?

A high-profile disaster can make what seemed inevitable appear crazy.

The White House halted a planned executive order that would have put control over NIH research grants in the hands of political appointees.

From the Changesurfer Radio Archives

More politicians in the U.S. and around the globe are taking a look at sunlight-reflecting technologies, two experts said.

It's one thing to be anti-AI in the sense of believing that AI-generated slop, disinformation and deepfakes are bad; that AI companies that hope to con your boss into firing you and replacing you with...

A small number of people are shaping what chatbots value. Those choices are already influencing how people think.

Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.

Scientists know very little about how TikTok and its copycats affect human cognition, but the signs aren’t good.

Bodies, SF, and Utopia

Episode 49 - Targeting at Machine Speed This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J speak with Major Michael Brodka, a U.S. Army military intelligence officer and author of the July 2026 Military Review a...

There is an emergent Silicon Valley gospel that has challenged both the boundaries and the mechanisms of shame in America, and it has a potential voice in the chatbot, Jay Caspian Kang writes.

We usually think of aging as something that catches up with us later in life.

Anthropic detailed several cases of governments using Claude to surveil people.

YouTube video by Technomics