Following their 2010 conference on Cetacean Rights, the Helsinki Group put together a Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans (which includes a...

The Paleo Summit is underway. It's a free online event that will run from February 26 through to March 6. You can register here . The Su...

Internet pioneer Larry Smarr's quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery, an unusual partnership wi...

Sentient Developments Podcast for the week of February 27, 2012 . Topics discussed in this week's episode: PETA's lost case agains...

I recently made my second appearance on Nikola Danaylov's excellent Singularity 1 on 1 podcast. You watch and/or listen to it here . Ni...

The Guardian is reporting on how a group of scientists and ethicists are making the case that sufficient evidence exists showing that whal...

Sentient Developments Podcast for the week of February 20, 2012 . Topics discussed in this week's episode: Moral enhancement and cogni...

Back in June 2010, eminent Australian scientist Professor Frank Fenner, who helped to wipe out smallpox, predicted that humans will probably...

It's becoming increasingly evident to me that a surprising number of people think the IEET's Rights of Nonhuman Persons Program is ...

I'm starting to become a bit sensitive to the frequency with which people conflate robotics with artificial intelligence. I often hear p...

Philosopher David Pearce says there are five ways that transhumanism can eliminate suffering: We Shall Soon Be Able To Choose Our Own Lev...

Surprising article about SETI and the Fermi Paradox in Psychology Today : Where are all the Aliens? by Robert Lanza. He writes: Perhaps acr...

Writing in Slate , Patrick Lin addresses the social, legal, and ethical problems posed by the coming robotics revolution . If a robot does m...

PETA may have lost its case against SeaWorld, but it marks an important step forward in the struggle to recognize highly sapient animals as ...

Ooh, I needs to read this: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents by Samir Chopra and Laurence F. White. It's a book that esse...

I find this topic fascinating. Things that this talk brought to mind: This is Fordism for the 21st Century This is a prime example of th...

Evan Selinger of Slate asks, " How will life change if we can’t forget anything? " Selinger quotes me as an advocate for enhanced...

Check out Allen Buchanan's latest book, Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves : Is it right to use biomedical...

The U.S. administration will weigh the potential risks and benefits surrounding ways to shield children from bioterrorism and methods to tre...

Madeline Ashby, Jesse Hirsch, Robert J. Sawyer, and the IEET's James Hughes recently appeared on The Agenda with Steve Paikin . They ta...