This document discusses issues related to human enhancement technologies and artificial intelligence from a legal perspective. It identifies several key issues that will need to be addressed like whether damage to an advanced prosthesis would be considered property damage or a personal injury. It also discusses the need for the legal field to anticipate how disruptive emerging technologies could impact law and regulations regarding topics like legal personhood, cognitive liberty, and human enhancement. The document proposes that the New York State Bar Association form a team to address these issues and develop model laws and legislation to help guide policymakers.
This document discusses human rights issues related to artificial intelligence. It begins with definitions of key AI concepts like machine learning, deep learning, and algorithms. It then explains how AI can both help and potentially harm society. The document outlines how various human rights may be impacted by current and future applications of AI, such as privacy and non-discrimination. It concludes with recommendations for stakeholders to address human rights harms through approaches like data protection laws and increased research.
Innovations in Healthcare - US Chamber of CommerceW2O Group
W2O Group's president and author of Storytizing, Bob Pearson spoke at the US Chamber of Commerce's #healthforward event. He shared key insights on innovations in healthcare.
Kim Solez tech&future of medicine for med students fall 2017Kim Solez ,
Kim Solez technology&future of medicine for med students fall 2017 Oct. 6, 2017 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Copyright (c) 2017, JustMachines Inc.
Innovations in Healthcare - US Chamber of Commerce Maya Ollie
W2O Group's president and author of Storytizing, Bob Pearson spoke at the US Chamber of Commerce's #healthforward event. He shared key insights on innovations in healthcare.
Presentation for the AI Everything Conference at GITEX 2021 in Dubai. Based on the IEEE Report "Decoupling Human Characteristics from Algorithmic Capabilities"
https://standards.ieee.org/initiatives/artificial-intelligence-systems/decoupling-human-characteristics.html
Transhumanism 2024: A new future for politics?David Wood
Presentation made by David Wood on 2nd October 2021 to the London Futurists event "A new future for politics?" This includes 15 possible policies for mayoral campaigns in major cities in the UK in 2024.
A video recording of this presentation, along with subsequent discussion, can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJLHx5T8BFI
This document summarizes a presentation given at the 2019 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference on "Programming Our Genomes, Programming Ourselves: The Moral and Regulatory Limits of Self-Harm in DIY Genomics". The presentation discusses the various US laws and regulations that potentially apply to biotechnology and DIY biology. It notes the challenges of regulating novel technologies that do not fit existing regulatory frameworks. It also discusses different narratives around citizen science and DIY biology, and considers how 20th century regulations distinguished personal/small-scale activities from commercial/large-scale activities.
Artificial intelligence in medicine (projeck)YasserAli152984
The document discusses various uses of artificial intelligence in medicine, including disease detection, diagnostics, scientific experiments, surgery robots, and cancer detection. It notes that AI has made progress in areas like analyzing large datasets, aiding physicians, and automating administrative tasks. However, the integration of human and AI is seen as key to revolutionizing healthcare.
This document discusses human rights issues related to artificial intelligence. It begins with definitions of key AI concepts like machine learning, deep learning, and algorithms. It then explains how AI can both help and potentially harm society. The document outlines how various human rights may be impacted by current and future applications of AI, such as privacy and non-discrimination. It concludes with recommendations for stakeholders to address human rights harms through approaches like data protection laws and increased research.
Innovations in Healthcare - US Chamber of CommerceW2O Group
W2O Group's president and author of Storytizing, Bob Pearson spoke at the US Chamber of Commerce's #healthforward event. He shared key insights on innovations in healthcare.
Kim Solez tech&future of medicine for med students fall 2017Kim Solez ,
Kim Solez technology&future of medicine for med students fall 2017 Oct. 6, 2017 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Copyright (c) 2017, JustMachines Inc.
Innovations in Healthcare - US Chamber of Commerce Maya Ollie
W2O Group's president and author of Storytizing, Bob Pearson spoke at the US Chamber of Commerce's #healthforward event. He shared key insights on innovations in healthcare.
Presentation for the AI Everything Conference at GITEX 2021 in Dubai. Based on the IEEE Report "Decoupling Human Characteristics from Algorithmic Capabilities"
https://standards.ieee.org/initiatives/artificial-intelligence-systems/decoupling-human-characteristics.html
Transhumanism 2024: A new future for politics?David Wood
Presentation made by David Wood on 2nd October 2021 to the London Futurists event "A new future for politics?" This includes 15 possible policies for mayoral campaigns in major cities in the UK in 2024.
A video recording of this presentation, along with subsequent discussion, can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJLHx5T8BFI
This document summarizes a presentation given at the 2019 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference on "Programming Our Genomes, Programming Ourselves: The Moral and Regulatory Limits of Self-Harm in DIY Genomics". The presentation discusses the various US laws and regulations that potentially apply to biotechnology and DIY biology. It notes the challenges of regulating novel technologies that do not fit existing regulatory frameworks. It also discusses different narratives around citizen science and DIY biology, and considers how 20th century regulations distinguished personal/small-scale activities from commercial/large-scale activities.
Artificial intelligence in medicine (projeck)YasserAli152984
The document discusses various uses of artificial intelligence in medicine, including disease detection, diagnostics, scientific experiments, surgery robots, and cancer detection. It notes that AI has made progress in areas like analyzing large datasets, aiding physicians, and automating administrative tasks. However, the integration of human and AI is seen as key to revolutionizing healthcare.
Law of the Future 2011
23 & 24 June 2011, Peace Palace, The Hague, The Netherlands
title:
Justice sector innovators: We better reward them!
By Maurits Barendrecht, Innovating Justice
www.lawofthefuture.org
The document summarizes discussions from the 3rd Annual Terasem Colloquium on expanding legal and ethical definitions of personhood in light of emerging technologies. It explores scenarios involving chimpanzees with speech, artificial wombs, and cyborg soldiers. It also discusses converging technologies like AI, avatars, and human augmentation and their implications for intelligence and personhood. Key issues addressed include privacy, autonomy, culpability, and where beings with technologies fall on the property-person continuum. Recommendations include establishing common terminology and possibly specialized science courts to handle legal questions from advanced technologies.
Transhumanism and the Future of Law and Medicine discusses key issues at the intersection of transhumanism, law, and medicine. The document outlines topics such as human enhancement, the politics of human enhancement, transhuman jurisprudence, transhuman medicine, radical life extension, and options for legal and medical approaches. It also announces a first world summit on human enhancement coming in 2016 to discuss enabling technologies and their economic implications.
Advancements in technology have helped improve the quality of film editing over time. New technologies allow filmmakers to separate sequences, fix mistakes, and expand their creative potential. These technological improvements aid film editors in increasing and enhancing the overall quality of a film.
The Future of Your Health - Dr. Tiffany VoraSUCanadaSummit
Although the application of digital biology raises profound ethical, governmental, and environmental questions, these technologies provide a great opportunity to solve some of humanity’s global grand challenges, such as health, food, water, energy, the environment, and even space.
The document discusses human technological enhancement and the related legal challenges. It explores concepts like human enhancement technologies, their goals of improving capabilities and extending healthy lifespans. As these technologies progress, major challenges for the law include ensuring personhood, responsibility, competence and free agency for enhanced and robotic beings. If the legal system does not keep up with the rapid rate of technological change, it could threaten justice and fairness in societies that embrace human enhancement.
Forensic science and beyond: authenticity, provenance and assurance - reportbis_foresight
This document is the annual report of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser for 2015. It focuses on forensic science and its applications beyond criminal justice, including using analytical techniques to verify authenticity and trace the provenance of goods and services. The report was developed based on input from experts in seminars. It considers how emerging technologies can advance forensic analysis and its uses. The report aims to provide evidence for policymakers on maximizing benefits from these techniques. It explores challenges around public engagement and governance when using powerful forensic tools.
Great Issues Reflective Essay CybersecurityLIJames Bollen
Cybersecurity is a major issue of the 21st century due to increased internet usage and the ability of hackers to steal private information. There are debates around balancing security and liberty in approaches to cybersecurity. Laws have difficulties in cyberspace which lacks geographic boundaries, suggesting a natural law approach may be better. The internet also changes human relationships and challenges traditional concepts of jurisdiction. As the internet economy grows, cybercrime opportunities increase, emphasizing the importance of improving cybersecurity.
Nova Medicina, Novos Principios: o que muda com a inovação tecnológica?
Com a e-Saúde e a tecnologia de informação e comunicação, a relação médico-paciente se transforma e há o questionamento se serão necessários novos principios bioéticos para permear essa relação.
Kenneth Cukier discusses the frontiers of big data and how it is transforming how we live, work and think. Some key points are that with big data, more data is not just more of the same but rather is new, better and different. Big data allows for new insights like identifying drug side effects from search queries without a medical study. Data is becoming a new raw material and machine learning is powering advances in areas like computer translation, speech recognition and self-driving cars. However, regulation is needed regarding privacy and ownership with increased data collection.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and OptioAlleneMcclendon878
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol (CRPD)
Article 13
Presented By: Brandon Palm
Article 13: Access To Justice
States Parties shall ensure effective access to justice for persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others, including through the provision of procedural and age-appropriate accommodations, in order to facilitate their effective role as direct and indirect participants, including as witnesses, in all legal proceedings, including at investigative and other preliminary stages.
In order to help to ensure effective access to justice for persons with disabilities, States Parties shall promote appropriate training for those working in the field of administration of justice, including police and prison staff.
Why Article 13 Was Included
Some people with disabilities do not have the ability to speak up or defend for themselves.
Disabilities might be overlooked or instead seen as an excuse for why a crime was committed.
To ensure people with disabilities can have a fair trial if they cannot defend themselves due to their disability.
Protects people with disabilities from unjust rulings and detainment.
Why Article 13 Matters
Provides training and education to people in the criminal justice field.
The legal system is complicated, is a long process and can be overwhelming so it provides reasonable accommodations.
Ensures people with disabilities have the right to a fair trial.
Article 13 is important in connecting other articles for legal process like article 15: Freedom from cruel punishments.
Why Justice Is Important
Justice places a standard on society which requires people to adhere to the standard or face consequences.
If a standard is violated, punishments will be issued based on what law is violated and what is determined as a just or fair punishment by society.
Without justice there would be no punishments or ways to deter people from doing things deemed evil or unlawful by society.
Without Access To Justice
Earl Washington: Washington was sentenced to death in 1983 for a crime he did not commit. Because of his intellectual disability, he was induced by police into confessing to the crime. DNA evidence eventually proved his innocence, but not before Washington came dangerously close to being executed. Washington spent ten years on death row and then several more years in prison before he was finally released in January of 2001.
Anthony Gray: In October 1991, Anthony Gray pled guilty to first-degree murder and first-degree rape and was sentenced to two concurrent life sentences. The convictions were based on a "confession," which police officers coaxed out of Gray, who has an intellectual disability, by telling him that two other men arrested in connection with the case had told police that Gray was involved. Gray was of below-average intelligence. He was pressured into the confession, believing he would avoid the death penalty if he entered a guilty plea and a ...
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The essays in this symposium were first delivered at the second conference in the series “Stuck with
Virtue.” Sponsored by the University of Chicago’s New Science of Virtues project, this conference
examined the various Cartesian, Lockean, and Darwinian premises that help shape and inform the
ethics and ethos of modern technological democracy. Held in April 2011 at Berry College in Rome,
Georgia, the conference featured four main speakers: Ronald Bailey (below), Charles T. Rubin, Patrick
J. Deneen, and Robert P. Kraynak, with responses to Mr. Bailey by Benjamin Storey and to Professor
Rubin by Adam Keiper (here joined by Ari N. Schulman).
See also the response to this essay, “Liberation Biology, Lost in the Cosmos,” by Benjamin Storey.
Ronald Bailey
oes the enhancement of human physical and intellectual capacities undermine virtue?
In answering this question, we must first make a distinction between therapy and
enhancement. Therapeutic technologies are meant to restore impaired or degraded human capacities to
some more normal level. By contrast, any enhancements would alter human functioning beyond the
normal.
We must also keep in mind that, whatever we think about them, enhancements are going to happen.
Age-retardation or even age-reversal are prime targets for research, but other techniques aimed at
preventing disease and boosting memory, intelligence, and physical strength will also be developed.
Much worried attention is focused particularly on the possibility of achieving these and other
The Case for Enhancing People
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http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/liberation-biology-lost-in-the-cosmos
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The following presentation was given by Barbara Giovanelli, Policy Officer, Digital Ethics at EPDS European Data Protection Supervisor, during the e-SIDES workshop "Towards Value-Centric Big Data" held on April 2, 2019 in Brussels.
15/3 -17 impact exponential technologies Paul Epping
This document discusses how emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, digital biology, robotics, and nanotechnology are advancing exponentially and will transform our future in unprecedented ways. It summarizes key points about how within a few decades, machines may surpass human-level intelligence, leading to a technological singularity. It also emphasizes the importance of developing these technologies in a way that aligns with human values like democracy, liberty, and compassion to ensure they are beneficial to humanity. The document provides examples of the impact technologies may have on jobs, health, and other aspects of society, as well as perspectives on how to guide technological progress responsibly.
Johnson & Johnson Presentation 25 Sept 2013Craig Rispin
This document discusses trends in business, technology, life sciences, and work/life shifts that are accelerating change. It covers topics like the global mobility of people, education reform, big data, cloud computing, robots, mobile devices, 3D printing, and increasing transparency. The presentation argues that these trends are happening faster externally than many companies are adapting internally, so companies must change or risk falling behind. It provides examples of new technologies in areas like health monitoring devices, biosensors, genetic sequencing costs, and digital health practices to illustrate the speed and impact of these transformations.
The document discusses emerging trends in medicine that will change how healthcare is delivered in the future. It notes that (1) digital technologies like smartphones, apps, telemedicine, and wearables will become the main platforms for healthcare interactions, (2) portable diagnostics and 3D printing will enable diagnosing and treating patients anywhere, and (3) artificial intelligence and big data analytics will start replacing some doctor responsibilities and enable more personalized medicine.
This document discusses legal and ethical considerations regarding internet regulation in Australia. It outlines how the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) currently regulates offensive online content by issuing takedown notices and maintaining a blacklist. There are debates around defining offensive content and whether existing offline laws can be applied online. The document also examines arguments for and against internet censorship in Australia, citing concerns from experts like Vint Cerf about the effectiveness of censorship and freedom of information.
Law of the Future 2011
23 & 24 June 2011, Peace Palace, The Hague, The Netherlands
title:
Justice sector innovators: We better reward them!
By Maurits Barendrecht, Innovating Justice
www.lawofthefuture.org
The document summarizes discussions from the 3rd Annual Terasem Colloquium on expanding legal and ethical definitions of personhood in light of emerging technologies. It explores scenarios involving chimpanzees with speech, artificial wombs, and cyborg soldiers. It also discusses converging technologies like AI, avatars, and human augmentation and their implications for intelligence and personhood. Key issues addressed include privacy, autonomy, culpability, and where beings with technologies fall on the property-person continuum. Recommendations include establishing common terminology and possibly specialized science courts to handle legal questions from advanced technologies.
Transhumanism and the Future of Law and Medicine discusses key issues at the intersection of transhumanism, law, and medicine. The document outlines topics such as human enhancement, the politics of human enhancement, transhuman jurisprudence, transhuman medicine, radical life extension, and options for legal and medical approaches. It also announces a first world summit on human enhancement coming in 2016 to discuss enabling technologies and their economic implications.
Advancements in technology have helped improve the quality of film editing over time. New technologies allow filmmakers to separate sequences, fix mistakes, and expand their creative potential. These technological improvements aid film editors in increasing and enhancing the overall quality of a film.
The Future of Your Health - Dr. Tiffany VoraSUCanadaSummit
Although the application of digital biology raises profound ethical, governmental, and environmental questions, these technologies provide a great opportunity to solve some of humanity’s global grand challenges, such as health, food, water, energy, the environment, and even space.
The document discusses human technological enhancement and the related legal challenges. It explores concepts like human enhancement technologies, their goals of improving capabilities and extending healthy lifespans. As these technologies progress, major challenges for the law include ensuring personhood, responsibility, competence and free agency for enhanced and robotic beings. If the legal system does not keep up with the rapid rate of technological change, it could threaten justice and fairness in societies that embrace human enhancement.
Forensic science and beyond: authenticity, provenance and assurance - reportbis_foresight
This document is the annual report of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser for 2015. It focuses on forensic science and its applications beyond criminal justice, including using analytical techniques to verify authenticity and trace the provenance of goods and services. The report was developed based on input from experts in seminars. It considers how emerging technologies can advance forensic analysis and its uses. The report aims to provide evidence for policymakers on maximizing benefits from these techniques. It explores challenges around public engagement and governance when using powerful forensic tools.
Great Issues Reflective Essay CybersecurityLIJames Bollen
Cybersecurity is a major issue of the 21st century due to increased internet usage and the ability of hackers to steal private information. There are debates around balancing security and liberty in approaches to cybersecurity. Laws have difficulties in cyberspace which lacks geographic boundaries, suggesting a natural law approach may be better. The internet also changes human relationships and challenges traditional concepts of jurisdiction. As the internet economy grows, cybercrime opportunities increase, emphasizing the importance of improving cybersecurity.
Nova Medicina, Novos Principios: o que muda com a inovação tecnológica?
Com a e-Saúde e a tecnologia de informação e comunicação, a relação médico-paciente se transforma e há o questionamento se serão necessários novos principios bioéticos para permear essa relação.
Kenneth Cukier discusses the frontiers of big data and how it is transforming how we live, work and think. Some key points are that with big data, more data is not just more of the same but rather is new, better and different. Big data allows for new insights like identifying drug side effects from search queries without a medical study. Data is becoming a new raw material and machine learning is powering advances in areas like computer translation, speech recognition and self-driving cars. However, regulation is needed regarding privacy and ownership with increased data collection.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and OptioAlleneMcclendon878
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol (CRPD)
Article 13
Presented By: Brandon Palm
Article 13: Access To Justice
States Parties shall ensure effective access to justice for persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others, including through the provision of procedural and age-appropriate accommodations, in order to facilitate their effective role as direct and indirect participants, including as witnesses, in all legal proceedings, including at investigative and other preliminary stages.
In order to help to ensure effective access to justice for persons with disabilities, States Parties shall promote appropriate training for those working in the field of administration of justice, including police and prison staff.
Why Article 13 Was Included
Some people with disabilities do not have the ability to speak up or defend for themselves.
Disabilities might be overlooked or instead seen as an excuse for why a crime was committed.
To ensure people with disabilities can have a fair trial if they cannot defend themselves due to their disability.
Protects people with disabilities from unjust rulings and detainment.
Why Article 13 Matters
Provides training and education to people in the criminal justice field.
The legal system is complicated, is a long process and can be overwhelming so it provides reasonable accommodations.
Ensures people with disabilities have the right to a fair trial.
Article 13 is important in connecting other articles for legal process like article 15: Freedom from cruel punishments.
Why Justice Is Important
Justice places a standard on society which requires people to adhere to the standard or face consequences.
If a standard is violated, punishments will be issued based on what law is violated and what is determined as a just or fair punishment by society.
Without justice there would be no punishments or ways to deter people from doing things deemed evil or unlawful by society.
Without Access To Justice
Earl Washington: Washington was sentenced to death in 1983 for a crime he did not commit. Because of his intellectual disability, he was induced by police into confessing to the crime. DNA evidence eventually proved his innocence, but not before Washington came dangerously close to being executed. Washington spent ten years on death row and then several more years in prison before he was finally released in January of 2001.
Anthony Gray: In October 1991, Anthony Gray pled guilty to first-degree murder and first-degree rape and was sentenced to two concurrent life sentences. The convictions were based on a "confession," which police officers coaxed out of Gray, who has an intellectual disability, by telling him that two other men arrested in connection with the case had told police that Gray was involved. Gray was of below-average intelligence. He was pressured into the confession, believing he would avoid the death penalty if he entered a guilty plea and a ...
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The essays in this symposium were first delivered at the second conference in the series “Stuck with
Virtue.” Sponsored by the University of Chicago’s New Science of Virtues project, this conference
examined the various Cartesian, Lockean, and Darwinian premises that help shape and inform the
ethics and ethos of modern technological democracy. Held in April 2011 at Berry College in Rome,
Georgia, the conference featured four main speakers: Ronald Bailey (below), Charles T. Rubin, Patrick
J. Deneen, and Robert P. Kraynak, with responses to Mr. Bailey by Benjamin Storey and to Professor
Rubin by Adam Keiper (here joined by Ari N. Schulman).
See also the response to this essay, “Liberation Biology, Lost in the Cosmos,” by Benjamin Storey.
Ronald Bailey
oes the enhancement of human physical and intellectual capacities undermine virtue?
In answering this question, we must first make a distinction between therapy and
enhancement. Therapeutic technologies are meant to restore impaired or degraded human capacities to
some more normal level. By contrast, any enhancements would alter human functioning beyond the
normal.
We must also keep in mind that, whatever we think about them, enhancements are going to happen.
Age-retardation or even age-reversal are prime targets for research, but other techniques aimed at
preventing disease and boosting memory, intelligence, and physical strength will also be developed.
Much worried attention is focused particularly on the possibility of achieving these and other
The Case for Enhancing People
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https://www.facebook.com/TNAjournal
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/subscriber_services/e-mail-updates
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http://scienceofvirtues.org/
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/machine-morality-and-human-responsibility
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-science-of-politics-and-the-conquest-of-nature
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/justice-without-foundations
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/liberation-biology-lost-in-the-cosmos
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-problem-with-friendly-artificial-intelligence
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/liberation-biology-lost-in-the-cosmos
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/ronald-bailey
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The following presentation was given by Barbara Giovanelli, Policy Officer, Digital Ethics at EPDS European Data Protection Supervisor, during the e-SIDES workshop "Towards Value-Centric Big Data" held on April 2, 2019 in Brussels.
15/3 -17 impact exponential technologies Paul Epping
This document discusses how emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, digital biology, robotics, and nanotechnology are advancing exponentially and will transform our future in unprecedented ways. It summarizes key points about how within a few decades, machines may surpass human-level intelligence, leading to a technological singularity. It also emphasizes the importance of developing these technologies in a way that aligns with human values like democracy, liberty, and compassion to ensure they are beneficial to humanity. The document provides examples of the impact technologies may have on jobs, health, and other aspects of society, as well as perspectives on how to guide technological progress responsibly.
Johnson & Johnson Presentation 25 Sept 2013Craig Rispin
This document discusses trends in business, technology, life sciences, and work/life shifts that are accelerating change. It covers topics like the global mobility of people, education reform, big data, cloud computing, robots, mobile devices, 3D printing, and increasing transparency. The presentation argues that these trends are happening faster externally than many companies are adapting internally, so companies must change or risk falling behind. It provides examples of new technologies in areas like health monitoring devices, biosensors, genetic sequencing costs, and digital health practices to illustrate the speed and impact of these transformations.
The document discusses emerging trends in medicine that will change how healthcare is delivered in the future. It notes that (1) digital technologies like smartphones, apps, telemedicine, and wearables will become the main platforms for healthcare interactions, (2) portable diagnostics and 3D printing will enable diagnosing and treating patients anywhere, and (3) artificial intelligence and big data analytics will start replacing some doctor responsibilities and enable more personalized medicine.
This document discusses legal and ethical considerations regarding internet regulation in Australia. It outlines how the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) currently regulates offensive online content by issuing takedown notices and maintaining a blacklist. There are debates around defining offensive content and whether existing offline laws can be applied online. The document also examines arguments for and against internet censorship in Australia, citing concerns from experts like Vint Cerf about the effectiveness of censorship and freedom of information.
▷ I’m Sander Rabin and I want to welcome you to this webcast.
▷ I want to begin by acknowledging:
☐ Margie Davino, who was able to arrange for me to conduct this webcast from the
☐ Trinity Conference Room
at the offices of
☐ Kaufman Borgeest and Ryan in New York City
As to myself,
▷ I’m a lawyer and a doctor; and, I serve on
☐ The Committee for Medical Research and Biotechnology of the ☐ HLS of
☐ NYSBA.
▷ It was there that:
☐ the legal impacts of human enhancement were first discussed; and,
☐ a team was created to raise the awareness of the BA membership on those impacts.
▷ Now, most people that I speak to have never heard of human enhancement,
so let me explain what human enhancement is.
☐ Human enhancement is what happens when medicine goes from
◇ healing to boosting,
◇ by which I mean,
◇ augmenting all that’s biological about us.
☐ In addition to raising special legal issues directed to specific practice areas, such as criminal law, trusts & estates, and property law, human enhancement:
challenges
◇ legal concepts and presumptions on which our system of law is founded; and,
◇ challenges the ability of our system of law to remain effective in regulating emerging and disruptive technologies.
▷So, I invite you to keep in mind the legal concepts of
☐ personhood,
☐ liability,
☐ rights & duties,
☐ sovereignty, and
☐ legal capacity & competence
☐ as well as how we will maintain the law’s role in in a world increasingly shaped by emerging and disruptive technologies that respect no national boundaries.
☐ You may be aware of a trend in our society that’s so pervasive that it’s largely gone unnoticed.
◇ It’s sort of like the air we breathe.
☐ It’s a trend that’s eroding what I call
◇ “the organic-inorganic divide “-
the increasing integration of organic living things with inorganic synthetic things.
☐ It started for me when I was a doctor, taking note of:
◇ cardiac pacemakers,
◇ cochlear implants,
◇ intraocular lenses. and
◇ total joint replacements
☐ replacing failed human tissues and organs with superior functioning medical implants.
▷The trend is called cyborgization; and, it’s presence and influence are unmistakable.
☐ Your most valuable possession is probably your smartphone;
☐ You are completely dependent on it; and,
☐ It’s loss would be experienced as disabling to your performance.
☐ The loss of no other material thing would cause you as much upset.
☐ The trend of cyborgization points to a certain kind of future –
◇ what I call a Probable, Very Likely Future
◇ I’ve named that future
○ the Age of Human Enhancement
☐ And the
◇ leading edge of this future has now hit the “shores of the law,” so to speak,
◇ with the development of advanced prostheses that are
○ wirelessly controlled by the thoughts of an amputees through a direct Brain-Machine-Interface and
○ which transmit tactile sensation to the amputee.
▷ Last month, I participated in a panel discussion that focused on the following questions
▷This panel explored whether individuals who rely on an advanced prosthesis to perform essential daily activities of living should be able to sue for personal injury when their prosthesis has been damaged by another.
☐ Currently, if someone’s prosthetic gets damaged in an accident, they cannot recover their lost time from work or lost enjoyment of life.
☐ They have only suffered property damage and are only entitled to recover the cost of the repair.
◇ A suspect class is a class of individuals that have been historically subject to discrimination.
“[W]e …[need] to … think about how the law will respond as the divide between human and machine becomes ever-more unstable. … [W]e [need to] consider how the law … will shift as we develop from humans who use machines into humans who partially are machines or, at least, who depend on machines pervasively for our most human-like activities.”
Benjamin Wittes and Jane Chong, Our Cyborg ☐ Future: Law and Policy Implications (September 2014).Available at
http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2014/09/cyborg-future-law-policy-implications (last visited October 20, 2015).
▷ The direction of the trend of cyborgization is from:
Fixed ⇰ Portable ⇰ Wearable ⇰ Applicable ⇰Implantable
☐ Our bodies are becoming less distinguishable from the material products used to enhance them.
☐ The popularity of wearable technology points to a seamless integration of bodily and technological functions and suggests, not only a trend but, an emerging way of life.
▷ Cyborgization is an aspect of a new technological possibility called human enhancement.
▷ We’re all familiar with medical technology that’s used to:
☐ manage or cure disease; and,
☐ replace or repair damaged body parts.
▷ Human enhancement is the application of a variety of medically-relevant technologies to go beyond the restoration of bodily functions to the augmenting bodily functions.
▷ Human enhancement refers to the use of any technology to:
☐ extend the human lifespan; and
☐ boost human physical and mental capabilities beyond their inherent biological limitations.
▷DRIVERS OF HUMAN ENHANCEMENT
☐ IMMORTALITY
◇ To the extent that human enhancement seeks to radically extend the human lifespan, it’s the modern-day expression of a quest for immortality that’s been part of our human nature and history for millennia.
☐ CONTROL
◇ To the extent that human enhancement seeks to improve the human condition by optimizing our adaptation to the environment and our interaction with nature, it’s the modern-day expression of the tool-making that’s a large part of our human nature and history.
◇ Beginning with the stone axe, every technological advance can be viewed as a human enhancement.
☐ VANITY AND IDENTITY
◇ Plastic surgery, transexual surgery, hair transplantation, Botox, off-label uses of human growth hormone and testosterone, anabolic steroids, Viagra and it’s female analogue filbanserin, are current products an procedures of human enhancement technology.
☐ MEDICALTECHNOLOGY
◇ Regenerative medicine, stem cell technology and bionic implants are poised the blur the line that divides
○ healing and restoration from ○ enhancement.
◇ The unspoken goal of regenerative medicine is radical life extension.
☐ DIGITAL CULTURE
◇ The Apple watch is an icon of our digital culture.
◇ This culture is generating a growing demand for information relating to fitness and well-being.
◇ Biohackers and neurohackers want biological and neurological data out of their own bodies.
☐ Grinders are people who are implanting digital devices into their bodies on their own.
▷ As of 2015, there are no laws anywhere on human enhancement.
▷Human enhancement enabling technology (“HEET”) is a set of emerging technologies that extend the human lifespan, or augment human physical and mental capabilities.
▷Included among these technologies is;
☐ Biotechnology (including synthetic biology [explain, as necessary] and genetic engineering;
☐ Computer Technology (including artificial intelligence and robotics);
☐ Neurotechnology; and,
☐ Nanotechnology
▷ The artifacts of HEET are all around us, although currently limited to restoration, as opposed to augmentation.
▷Transhumanism is a philosophy and a [political] ideology that supports
☐ freedom of choice and
☐ freedom from coercion
in the use of HEET
☐ consistently with the maintenance of a stable democratic society
▷ Transhumanism stands on four human or civil “rights”:
☐ “Morphological Freedom:”
○ a right to amplify human physical abilities and lifespan;
☐ “Cognitive Liberty:”
○ a right of privacy for thoughts and feelings where they show up within the brain
and
○ a right to amplify human mental abilities;
☐ "procreative liberty:”
○ a right to produce genetically enhanced children; and,
☐ "participant evolution:”
○ a right to genetically modify forms of life and to bring new forms of life into existence.
▷ The leading edge of the Age of Human Enhancement has already arrived.
☐ The issues are no longer hypothetical.
☐ Here are a few current examples.
Chris Bryant and Richard Waters
Worker at Volkswagen plant killed in robot accident
Financial Times
July 1, 2105.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0c8034a6-200f-11e5-aa5a-398b2169cf79.html#axzz3oT5vFDcv
Kia Kokalitcheva
Worker killed by robot at VW plant
Fortune
July 1, 2105
http://fortune.com/2015/07/01/volkswagen-factory-death/
▷ Only legal persons have legal rights and duties.
▷ Only legal persons are entitled to constitutional protections.
▷The capacity to enter into legal transactions outside of court and the competency to invoke the law within a court are afforded only to legal persons.
▷ A most critical legal issue will be whether nor not constitutional protections are afforded to human hybrid creations of human enhancement, (virtual) artificial intelligence entities and robots.
Stuart Russel
Ban lethal autonomous weapons
The Boston Globe
September 8 2015
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/09/07/ban-lethal-autonomous-weapons/2yI2wF0wWRjHLmNQkPiCpI/story.html
▷ Who’s the legally responsible agent?
▷ Where is the legally responsible agent?
Annie Jacobsen
Engineering Humans for War
Financial Times
September 23, 2105
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/military-technology-pentagon-robots/406786/
“Soldiers having no physical, physiological, or cognitive limitation will be key to survival and operational dominance in the future.”
“The objective of this effort,” … “is to use remote teleoperation via direct interconnections with the brain.” The bigger objective was to allow future “soldiers [to] communicate by thought alone … .”
▷ What’s at Stake?
☐ In the novel Amped, [Daniel H. Wilson, Amped (2012) ] children implanted with neural prostheses to control epileptic seizures find that their intelligence is enhanced, and are denied legal characterization as a protected class, entitled to anti-discrimination provisions of the XIVth amendment. The article appearing in the New York Times on July 9, 2014 [Benedict Carey, Probing Brain’s Depth, Trying to Aid Memory. New York Times, July 9, 2014] eerily foreshadows this plot element of Amped.
☐ What’s at stake is a new human divide between the enhanced and the un-enhanced.
☐ What’s at stake is an employment divide between people with intelligence and the artificial intelligence.
Stephanie K. Baer
Birth control for mosquitoes?
It’s happening in the San Gabriel Valley
The San Gabriel Valley Tribune
October 11, 2015
http://www.sgvtribune.com/general-news/20151011/birth-control-for-mosquitoes-its-happening-in-the-san-gabriel-valley
A gene drive is a technology for perpetuating a genetically engineered trait into an endless succession of generation of a living species.
Vivek Wadhwa
Why there’s an urgent need for a moratorium on [CRSPRcas-9] gene editing
The Boston Globe
September 8, 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/09/08/why-theres-an-urgent-need-for-a-moratorium-on-gene-editing/
▷ CRISPR stands for:
☐ Clustered
☐ Regularly
☐ Interspaced
☐ Short
☐ Palindromic
☐ Repeats,
which describes a process in nature that scientists have harnessed to precisely edit DNA
▷ People are concerned about potential abuses of CRISPR
☐ Hence the call for a moratorium
☐ The limitation of national laws to:
◇ sovereign geographic boundaries
in the setting of
◇ globalization
presents formidable problems of
◇ regulatory compliance and
◇ law enforcement.
▷ The approach taken by the U.S to assess and manage the risks associated with the use of genetic engineering and the release of GMOs into the environment is ☐ The Coordinated Framework for Regulation of Biotechnology.
▷ For a GMO to be approved for release in the U.S., it must be assessed under the
☐ Plant Protection Act
by the
☐ Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
of the ☐ USDA and may also be assessed by the ☐ FDA and the ☐ EPA.
The problem is the use of 19th century distinctions in biology and ecology that have little or no relevance to the nature and potential impacts of a GMOs in the 21st century.
Olga Khazan
Smart' drugs are getting a lot smarter, Business Insider September 6, 2015
http://www.businessinsider.com/smart-drugs-are-getting-a-lot-smarter-2015-9
In “Probing Brain’s Depth, Trying to Aid Memory,” NYT (July 9, 2014), the Department of Defense announced a $40 million investment indirect brain recording.
UPenn and UCLA won contracts to develop brain implants for memory deficits.
While the aim is to develop new treatments for traumatic brain injury, whose most devastating symptom is the blunting of memory and reasoning, researchers see the potential of this technology for enhancement of memory and cognition.
http://nyti.ms/VHV3xV
This is an appropriate time to bring up the subject of Neurosecurity, which we’ll talk more about.
▷Cognitive liberty is becoming more important as technological advances in neuroscience allow for an ever-expanding ability to directly interrogate and influence the mind.
▷Neural implants and drugs that enhance cognition and memory will be relevant in deciding legal capacity, competence, and intent.
▷If the neural correlates of thinking and deciding are reduced to a neuro-genetic program, the legal presumption of free will and the legal attribution of responsibility are likely to come under challenge.
▷In October of 2014, the FDA published a nonbinding guidance to medical device manufacturers to prevent medical cybersecurity breaches:
☐ 2010: Anti-virus software stops treatment of ER patients
☐ 2011: wireless insulin pump models vulnerable to attack
☐ 2013: hard-coded passwords make access easy to ventilators, surgical & anesthesia equipment
☐ 2006 - 2011: 5,000 recalls & 1 million adverse medical device reports to FDA
☐ 2014: Still no mandatory national reporting system for security incidents on medical devices
▷The meninges, is a three-ply membrane which envelopes the brain.
☐ It may well be our last barrier of privacy - the metaphorical ‘Alamo’ of the central nervous system.
▷Denning, T., Matsuoka, Y., and Kohno, T., 2009. Neurosecurity: security and privacy for neural devices. Neurosurg Focus 27(1): E7, defined the term “[medical] neurosecurity” and called for the design of implantable neural devices that are secure in the face of adversarial attempts to co-opt their clinical functions to perform intrusive actions, possibly associated with increased patient morbidity and mortality.
☐ It remains uncertain whether neurosecurity is being adequately addressed
◇ in the design and programming of implantable neural devices,
◇ in the design and programming of neurodiagnostic equipment, and
◇ in the collection and storage of neurodata,"
defined in Hallinan, D., Schütz, P., Friedewald, M., and de Hert, P., 2014 Neurodata and Neuroprivacy: Data Protection Outdated? Surveillance and Society (12)1.
Amy Harmon
A Dying Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future
New York Times September 12, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/us/cancer-immortality-cryogenics.html?_r=0
“Cancer claimed Kim Suozzi at age 23, but she chose to have her brain preserved with the dream that neuroscience might one day revive her mind.”
▷Exemplary Legal Issues Presented by Life Extension and Cryogenic Preservation
▷ Longer life spans will impact relationships and family structures, raising issues of
☐ family law,
☐ elder law,
☐ health care law, and the
☐ law of trusts and estates.
▷Right to Bodily Integrity
☐ Autonomy in Support of Property
☐ Autonomy in Support of Privacy
☐ Dignity, Personhood, Sanctity
▷The right to “bodily integrity” rests on an inconsistent and internally contradictory theoretical foundation.
☐ For example, harmful uses of the body, as in mining, are routinely bought and sold but sale of parts of the body, is generally illegal on the grounds that it is harmful.
Gowru Ramachandran, Against the Right to Bodily Integrity: Of Cyborgs and Human Rights 2 DENVER UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Vol. 87 11/4/09 available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1434712
▷The overarching legal issues of
☐ personhood,
☐ competence and capacity in relation to intention and responsibility,
☐ locus of liability
will soon give rise to issues relevant to all specialized areas of legal practice.
▷There are also fundamental questions to consider, such as:
☐ What is the relationship of law human enhancement?
☐ What is the source of law for human enhancement?
☐ What kind of legal paradigm will be effective in regulating human enhancement?
☐ What values, concepts, and rights of our legal system are essential to a society in which HEET is deployed?
☐ What rules of distributive justice will assure that the deployment of HEET is beneficial and robust?
☐ How can the competing values of personal neurosecurity, national security and global security be reconciled within a legal framework?