transhumanism

An IT expert uses an EEG headset and machine learning technology to upload his brain into a computer, aiming for immortality. This scene captures a computer scientist developing an AI experiment

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 4, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Why Transhumanism Is Unrealistic and Immoral

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 4, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

In 2016, transhumanism proselytizer Zoltan Istvan ran for president promising to defeat death while touring the country in a bus redesigned to look like a coffin. It was a great gimmick that made him, perhaps, the most famous transhumanist in the world. But his recent piece in Merion West “When We’re Overly Optimistic about the Pace of Life Extension Research” took a dark and disturbing turn. Read More ›

Man and AI robot waiting for a job interview: AI vs human competition

^{Robert J. Marks II
July 18, 2024}

Robert Marks & Zoltan Istvan Debate AI and Transhumanism

_{Robert J. Marks II
July 18, 2024}

Gender Neutral Restroom sign with baby changing facilities

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

Is Transgenderism the First Wave of Transhumanism?

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

Transhumanism is a futuristic social movement that advocates harnessing the transformative powers of computer science, biotechnology, and medicine to create a “post-human species.” Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 2, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Wesley J. Smith Breaks Down the Left’s Push for “Human Unexceptionalism” With Laura Ingraham

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 2, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith joined Laura Ingraham to discuss the culture of death that now pervades the Left and the wages of its anti-humanist philosophy. Read More ›

Hands folded in prayer on a Holy Bible in church concept for faith

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 24, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

The Impossibility of Christian Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 24, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

So-called “Christian transhumanism,” or the attempt to blend the transhumanist agenda with the precepts of Christian theology, has been around for some time. But there has been a recent resurgence of interest in the project. Read More ›

^{Richard Weikart
February 21, 2022}

Darwinian Racism Webinar, Pt. 2

_{Richard Weikart
February 21, 2022}

Today’s ID the Future features the second half of a recent webinar spotlighting historian Richard Weikart and his new book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. Here Weikart fields questions from the webinar audience. Read More ›

^{George Gilder
April 25, 2019
Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

Google Does Not Believe in Life After Google

_{George Gilder
April 25, 2019
Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

As the third and final speaker at the Dallas launch of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, philosopher of technology George Gilder, author of Life after Google, offered some insights into the ultimate vision of the current AI technocrats. See also: “George Gilder: Life after Google will be okay“. “Seriously, the Google people do not believe that Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 11, 2019
Human Exceptionalism}

Transhumanism, the Lazy Way to Human ‘Improvement’

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 11, 2019
Human Exceptionalism}

Sometimes you have to laugh. In “Transhumanism and the Death of Human Exceptionalism,”published in Aero, Peter Clarke quotes criticism I leveled against transhumanism from a piece I wrote entitled, “The Transhumanist Bill of Wrongs” From my piece: Transhumanism would shatter human exceptionalism. The moral philosophy of the West holds that each human being is possessed of natural rights that adhere solely and merely because we Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
January 3, 2019
Human Exceptionalism}

Is Society Now Adopting the Values of ‘Blade Runner’?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 3, 2019
Human Exceptionalism}

“Blade Runner” may be the most influential science fiction movie of my lifetime. The 1982 film starred a terrific Harrison Ford as a world-weary detective assigned to find a terrorist cell of artificially intelligent cyborgs with super human capacities. Led by Rutger Hauer, the cyborgs have traveled to earth from space colonies in a desperate attempt to force their designer Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 2, 2018
Human Exceptionalism}

Your Mind Uploaded in a Computer Would Not Be You

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 2, 2018
Human Exceptionalism}

Transhumanists, as they are often called, pursue several approaches to attaining, if not exactly eternal life, then an indefinite existence. Some aim at radically extending life expectancy through biotechnology, such as by overcoming cellular aging, manufacturing cloned organs to replace worn-out body parts, and using stem cell therapies. But the most prominent transhumanist immortality proposal these days aims to upload our minds into computers, enhanced with artificial intelligence capabilities, whence we can “live” in the Cloud or as cyberbeings. Read More ›