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Bushs Bioethics Panel Report (which banned stem cell research) Opposes precautionary principle as reifying human nature But is humanity more than the sum of its functionalities? Challenges facing a Transhumanist Future A more positive attitude toward risk (opportunity not threat) needed to take test bolder hypotheses: does public ownership of science require a duty to participate in research? (the problem of insurance and compensation) Health becomes a positional good tied to whatever gives you an advantage over others (e.g. brain-boosting drugs); shifting norms wreak havoc on public health care expectations and delivery, as everyone feels always already disabled and enhanced disabled people become attractive to the abled The need for a new necropolitics caused by the problem of longer lives: pensions crisis, infantilization of adults, overpopulation (solved by voluntary suicides or space colonization?), and what if some people just dont want to live longer? The obsolescence of human labour, especially technically skilled work easily modelled by machines. Will consumption be the new production -- as invasion of privacy becomes the new worker exploitation? The capitalism of mouse clicks. Living with surveillance: Should we adopt a policy of co-veillance, whereby a right to speak entails a complementary right to hear? In that case, the real problem is the power asymmetry between the speakers and hearers but not the fact that you can be heard. The problem of superintelligent machines: Is the problem really that they might eliminate us or that some of us may be on their side? Our own increasingly on-line existence may foster a Turing Test social world, whereby being human isnt necessary or sufficient for affiliation. What to do about animal rights and rights of nature, more generally? Normally these rights are less about empowerment than protection. But what about uplifting animals to function more fully in human societies? 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