[ExI] Emerging technologies and the ACLU

John Grigg possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 18 23:36:49 UTC 2010


The ACLU is already looking at the potential legal battles of the future...


"Stanley, a former analyst with a technology -- research company,
compiled a report titled Technology, Liberties, and The Future, which
was never released to the public. In it, he draws on insights from
scientists, legal scholars, and political theorists, gaming out the
ACLU's possible response to everything from cloning to artificial
intelligence to genetic splicing to nanotechnology. He raises more
questions than he answers. What would happen, Stanley wonders, if
people could develop genetic "recipes" for cloning? "How do free
speech rights bear up against privacy interests when, for example,
such recipes are traded over the Internet?" he asks. Once humans gain
the ability to modify their brains with technology, or modify
computers with genetic material, what qualifies as a human "when it
comes to granting all the rights that come with personhood?"


http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=humanoid_rights


John



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