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George Dvorsky | |
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| Born | May 11, 1970 |
| Website | http://www.sentientdevelopments.com |
George P. Dvorsky (born May 11, 1970) is a Canadian bioethicist, transhumanist and futurist. He is a contributing editor at io9[1] and producer of the Sentient Developments blog and podcast. He was chair of the board for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET)[2][3] and is the founder and chair of the IEET's Rights of Non-Human Persons Program,[4] a group that is working to secure human-equivalent rights and protections for highly sapient animals. He also serves on the Advisory Council of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
Dvorsky is a secular Buddhist,[5][6] progressive environmentalist,[7] ancestral health advocate,[8] and animal rights activist.[9][non-primary source needed] Primarily concerned with the ethical and sociological impacts of emerging technologies, specifically, "human enhancement" technologies; he seeks to promote open discussion for the purposes of education and foresight.[citation needed] He writes and speaks on a wide range of topics, including technoscience, ethics, existential risks, artificial intelligence, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and futurology, from a democratic transhumanist perspective.[2][3]
- ^ "George Dvorsky is now a Contributing Editor at io9". ieet.org. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
- ^ a b Humphrey, Stephen (2004). "No Death, Please, I'm Bionic: Cyborg-Obsessed Transhumanists Push Bioethical Limits While Fending Off Foes From All Sides". Retrieved 2015-06-12.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ a b Mayer, Andre (2005). "The Great Byte Hope". Archived from the original on 2007-01-01. Retrieved 2007-03-03.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "IEET Rights of Non-Human Persons Program". Archived from the original on 2013-06-18. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
- ^ "Cyborg Buddha Project". Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- ^ Dvorsky, George (September 2008). "Better Living through Transhumanism". Journal of Evolution & Technology. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- ^ Dvorsky, George (2003). "Technophiles and Greens of the World, Unite!". Archived from the original on 2007-05-10. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Dvorsky, George (2011). "Primal Transhumanism". Retrieved 2011-06-07.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Dvorsky, George (2006). "The myth of our exalted human place". Retrieved 2007-03-19.
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