Transhumanism

In the near future, artificial intelligence could do the thinking, and a robotic combination of human and machine do the lifting. 

But it’s a potentially dystopic scenario – the poor, the weak, and those who simply believe in humanity as nature intended could be abandoned. 

These are just some of major ethical challenges posed by so-called transhumanism. 

GUEST:

• Professor JASON EBERL is a bioethicist at St Louis University in Missouri. On the 8th of April, he’ll deliver the annual lecture to the Plunkett Centre for Ethics in Sydney.