OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
This conference is concerned with human enhancement, past and present. In the present, a broad set of developments across the fields of artificial intelligence and biology are unlocking transformational powers over the natural world. Within that context, a slew of proposals directed at the enhancement of humans have gained notoriety in recent years. These include selecting for traits through germline genome editing, linking or merging the human brain with artificial intelligence, and radical life extension.
We will bring together scholars from across disciplines to discuss how that past can and should inform moral debates in the present.
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For more information, programme, and abstracts visit: tinyurl.com/3dnnu6cy
Please contact Andrew Moeller with any questions: mailto:andrew.moeller@history.ox.ac.uk
