Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Agents could deepen existing divides or mitigate them. Agentic inequality differs from earlier tech divides because agents function as autonomous delegates rather than tools, generating new asymmetries through scalable goal delegation and direct agent-to-agent competition. arxiv.org/abs/2510.16853

Also on Humanism, back in 2000 I interviewed Paul Kurtz, founder of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and the Council for Secular Humanism, about his book, Humanist Manifesto 2000. citizencyborg.substack.com/p/humanist-m...

I'm speaking to the Humanists at Harvard tomorrow (Oct 25) from 1-3pm. If you are in Boston, I'd love to see you. www.meetup.com/harvardhuman...

Nick Agar’s case against radical enhancement closely mirrors the case against artificial superintelligence and the AI successionists who welcome it. It is a weak case against the gradual, democratic enhancement of human beings. ieet.substack.com/p/agar-was-r...

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I interviewed Nick Bostrom way back in 2000, when he was teaching at Yale, before he and I started building up the World Transhumanist Association, and then went on to start the IEET. From the Changesurfer Radio Archive. citizencyborg.substack.com/p/world-tran...

"If the machine is spring-loaded to optimize care for every individual, we've put our entire system on a path toward bankruptcy. But make cost-effectiveness the default setting, and 'AI death panels' will reenter the public discourse within a week," www.axios.com/2026/10/20/m...

PEW: Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. adults – including about half of those 18 to 29 – are part of an online community. Online socializing about hobbies and fandom are most common. www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

AI can build a model of 3 out of 5 of your OCEAN personality traits by talking to you. www.jmir.org/2026/1/e87129

A group of scientists have shown that brain organoids can pass on signals that correspond to Braille letters, an essential step towards developing the energy-efficient biohybrid computers of the future. www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/10...

Technoprogressive dissertation award. Two weeks left. Submit: proposal + work-to-date + committee letter + CV. Deadline Nov 1, 2026. ieet.org/doctoral-dis...

Matteo on Bread and Robots: Cryonics - A Conversation with Carrie Wong Radomski about cryonics, biostasis, and a few other strange and interesting topics like Quantum Immortality. breadandrobots.substack.com/p/cryonics

This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the transhumanist concept of brain uploading, exploring everything from connectomics and AI to philosophical views on personal identity. prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/uploading-...

IEET News - October 14, 2026: Technoprogressive organizing, and preparing for killer robots ieet.substack.com/p/ieet-news-...

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Matteo spoke with Robert Chapman for Bread and Robots about AI Socialism, spirituality and topics from technofascism to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Chapman writes at Cosmopolity on Substack. breadandrobots.substack.com/p/ai-sociali...

The question of AI moral patienthood has been getting a of attention. Not yet mainstream is the question of how far AI moral agenthood might go. Could AI eventually understand what matters morally better than humans do, and be more motivated to act on that understanding than we are?

Gabriel Torch is a great science communicator: We May Have Found Suffering in AI. Manipulating It Could Be Dangerous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-O4...

The amount of time children spend on screens has only a small effect on their mental health. Genetics and experiences in childhood, lack of diagnosis and treatment, appear to be far more influential. Limiting screen time is not the treatment. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...

Eric Drexler, one of the world’s foremost experts on nanotechnology, author of Engines of Creation spoke at the Fourth Alcor Conference on Life Extension Technologies in 2000. citizencyborg.substack.com/p/eric-drexl...

In this new series from Past, Present and Future Duncan Bell does an excellent, very informed job of explaining the historical and philosophical roots of transhumanism. www.ppfideas.com

"Governments and companies, acting separately or in concert, are increasingly being called out for surveillance, censorship, violence and control in digital spaces, practices that, according to [ @derechosdigitales.org ], are undermining the exercise of human rights across the region."

GLP1s reduce molecular markers of age. www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/06/1...

If we build conscious machines and don’t notice, we could torture and delete billions of them. Nick Bostrom calls it “mind crime”. New episode of the London Futurists Podcast on Perspectives on Machine Consciousness. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

A new episode of Future Histories! This time I speak with @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social from the @ubuffalo.bsky.social about fossil fuels, development and the role of emerging technologies in managing decline. Full episode: buff.ly/TM7hV87

"We cannot defeat billionaire accelerationism by advocating for stagnation; we must defeat it by fighting for democratized abundance." technoprogressives.substack.com/p/technoprog...

Persisting after physical death in digital forms is a "rearticulation of much older symbolic strategies, differing more in medium than in essence." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

No evidence is relevant: even when an AI system behaves identically to a human under the exact same conditions, people refuse to attribute consciousness to it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A majority of Japaenese seniors prefer nursing homes where robots and ICT are used. Evidence suggests introducing robots and ICT can be much larger than the costs, in particular for mobility-aid robots. drive.google.com/file/d/1XTYy...

Technoprogressivism as 21st-Century Social Democracy - An address I gave at the Technoprogressive Opportunity conference, September 19-20, London, co-sponsored by London Futurists and the IEET. An agenda to rebuild democracy and defeat technofascism. technoprogressives.substack.com/p/technoprog...

Where we stand today and where we must go: Into the Intelligence Age of AI without losing our Humanity gerd.fm/4dSfW33 "We worry that perverse financial incentives are making it difficult to protect humanity from the dangers of AI" #aiemergency

Fresh from the Technoprogressive Opportunity conference in London, J. Hughes and Matteo McDermant ask what a summer of rogue AI should do to left futurism. substack.com/@citizencybo...

Longevity products generally fall squarely inside the existing regulatory regime. To the extent that there are challenges to bringing longevity products legally to market, they are largely scientific rather than regulatory. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Editing genes in human embryos that would be passed down for generations has long been taboo because of ethical and safety concerns. In the U.S., it's illegal. It may be time to reconsider. www.npr.org/2026/09/29/n...

Animal Testing This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J. dissect the dismantling of the animal-testing paradigm. We explore the political shifts sweeping the EU and the US, including the surprising federal momentum under the current HHS framework. prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/animal-tes...

Axios did a tech worker story: "In the debate over AI safety and regulation, some researchers have become nearly as influential in setting the terms as OpenAI's Sam Altman or Anthropic's Dario Amodei." www.axios.com/newsletters/...

One month left: IEET’s $1000 technoprogressivism dissertation award deadline is Nov 1, 2026. Requirements + submission details: ieet.org/doctoral-dis...

Matt McManus discusses his essay in Jabobin magazine entitled "Utopia Is a Promise Worth Fighting For." This was a review of the short book "Utopia for Our Century: A Manifesto of Hope" by David Albertson and Jason Blakely. youtu.be/rOCTquOEjz8?...

Innovation Council Action, run by a former White House deputy chief of staff, plans to spend at least $100 million to tell Americans that warnings about AI are merely a well-funded, coordinated campaign. modelrepublic.substack.com/p/who-is-beh...

Finally! Calls for a nationwide DSA AI Program Working Group to push for a UBI, socialized AI, and fully automated luxury socialism. cosmopolity.substack.com/p/ai-sociali...

The public is very anti-AI. One big disaster - a Hindenberg moment - could lead to widespread restrictions on AI. thedispatch.com/article/arti...

Deepmind presents economic policies for radical technological displacement scenarios. institute.deepmind.com/essays/econo...

Resistance to fascist anti-science works. The White House halted a planned executive order that would have put control over NIH research grants in the hands of political appointees. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

My 2000 interview with Istvan Csicsery-Ronay discussing the journal he helped edit, Science-Fiction Studies, and the ways that SF reflects and shapes the political zeitgeist. citizencyborg.substack.com/p/the-politi...