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Advanced bioscience and AI: debugging the future of life.

Emerging topics in life sciences
Scientific advancements lead us towards a future in which Homo sapiens may no longer be the only sapient being. The societal and legal challenges of this potentiality are immense, and it will require traditionally disparate branches of science to rec...

Eight Kinds of Critters: A Moral Taxonomy for the Twenty-Second Century.

The Journal of medicine and philosophy
Over the coming century, the accelerating advance of bioenhancement technologies, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) may significantly broaden the qualitative range of sentient and intelligent beings. This article proposes a taxonomy of such ...

Legally Human? 'Novel Beings' and English Law.

Medical law review
Novel beings-intelligent, conscious life-forms sapient in the same way or greater than are human beings-are no longer the preserve of science fiction. Through technologies such as artificial general intelligence, synthetic genomics, gene printing, co...