Research Anthology on Emerging Technologies and Ethical Implications in Human Enhancement

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Ethical Implications

Imagining Future People in Biomedical Law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britta van Beers
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Gene Editing ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Future People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Biomedical Technologies ◽  
Human Genetic Engineering ◽  
Enhancement Technologies

Human genetic engineering and other human enhancement technologies bring about uncertainties and risks on both the physical and the conceptual and intangible levels. Much of the controversy surrounding these emerging technologies is due to the fact that categorical distinctions, such as between person and thing, and chance and choice, are blurred in radical ways. As a consequence, the emergence of biomedical technologies also entails, what could be called, metaphysical risks and symbolic uncertainties. This chapter explores the ways in which imaginings of the future of mankind and mankind itself have found their way into international legal regulation of biomedical technologies through an analysis of recent debates on the international ban on human germline genetic engineering. This prohibition, which is at the heart of international biolaw, is currently being questioned as recent scientific breakthroughs in the field of gene-editing are about to turn human genetic engineering into a reality.

scholarly journals Ethics and emerging technologies – facial recognition

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Archil Chochia ◽  
Teele Nässi
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Scholarly Discussion

Emerging technologies and digitalization have an increasing impact on our everyday lives. New technology solutions offer a variety of opportunities to our society, yet the ethical implications of this process have long been discussed by scholars in order to fully understand what the potential ethical risks are. One of such technologies is facial recognition. This article intends to contribute to the above indicated scholarly discussion by analyzing recent developments in the field, focusing on facial recognition.

scholarly journals Social and Ethical Impact of Advanced Artificial and Biological Enhancements

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-68
Author(s):  
Athanasios Alexiou ◽  
Panagiota Simou ◽  
Filia Alexiou ◽  
Stylianos Chatzichronis ◽  
Ghulam Md Ashraf
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Genome Editing ◽  
Genetic Improvement ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Pharmaceutical Products ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Ethical Implications

Background: While modern humans seek ways to extend life expectancy, the necessity of advanced bioengineering tools for the production of effective human enhancement applications appears as compelling as ever. Objective: The technological future of Homo sapiens has been scheduled within a quantum environment and advanced physical interventions are imperative to occur in the anatomy of modern humans, including genetic improvement and human cloning. New terminologies and latest projects such as genome editing, mind uploading and tissue engineering applications for the growth of new organs are issues of discussion in this paper. Methods: Several advanced biotechnological methods are presented in this paper, including the 14-days rule, the 2045 Initiative project and the CRISPR technique and their social and ethical implications are discussed. Results: The exponential aging of the population results in rapidly increasing demands for next-generation drugs and innovative pharmaceutical products that target individualized genetic treatment, resulting in the emergence of controversial ethical and social implications in the forthcoming post-Homo sapiens Era. Conclusion: The next-generation ethics must be clarified, an interdisciplinary debate should be initiated, and all the different perspectives must be recorded and evaluated to adopt the most efficient practices for controversial topics like the potential digital immortality.

scholarly journals Human enhancement and functional diversity: Ethical concerns of emerging technologies and transhumanism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miquel-Àngel Serra
Keyword(s):  
Genome Editing ◽  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Radical Transformation

The concepts of posthuman, transhuman, transhumanism and human enhancement, and their use of emerging technologies, are described together with their scientific and social implications. Genome editing techniques for enhancement purposes, as well as their scientific, societal, and ethical drawbacks are specifically discussed. In particular, we focus on a perspective of personal and collective responsibility and social inclusion, considering all people, with their functional diversity or different abilities. Pros and cons of proposals for radical transformation as endorsed by transhumanism (genome editing), their impact on future generations and on subjects with functional diversity, and the need of a global ethical frame, are discussed.

scholarly journals The Technologisation of Grace and Theology: Meta-theological Insights from Transhumanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-495
Author(s):  
King-Ho Leung
Keyword(s):  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Theological Discourse

This article examines some of the recent theological critiques of the movement of technological human enhancement known as ‘transhumanism’. Drawing on the comparisons between grace and technology often found in the theological discourse on transhumanism, this article argues that the Thomistic distinction between healing grace and elevating grace can not only supplement the theological analysis of transhumanism and its ethical implications, but also help Christian theologians and ethicists become more aware of how the phenomenon of technology may have implicitly shaped the contemporary understanding of ‘grace’ as well as the task of theology as a spiritual and indeed ethical practice.

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