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The FHI director Professor Nick Bostrom and other members of staff are often available for media interviews. We work with journalists to provide an expert opinion and perspective, background information, commentary on breaking news, and participation in debate, for radio, television, and print media. We try to respond promptly to media inquiries.
Areas of expertise include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Human enhancement, including the ethics, social impacts, and technological implementation of:
- Cognition enhancing drugs, brain-computer interfaces, etc.
- Life-extension / anti-aging medicine
- Emotional modification
- Performance enhancement in sport
- Genetic engineering
- Cloning
- Stem cells research
- Global catastrophic risks and threats to human civilization or survival, including:
- Bioterrorism
- Human extinction risks
- Civilization collapse
- Risks from artificial intelligence
- Risks from nanotechnology
- Topics related to rationality and wisdom, such as:
- The role of science and technology in society
- Cognitive biases
- General-interest discussions of social and philosophical issues
- Anthropic reasoning in cosmology (multiverse, origin of life, etc.)
- The future of technology and the future of humanity, including
- The future of human evolution
- Machine intelligence
- The singularity
- Robotics
- Mind “uploading”
- Nanotechnology
- Virtual reality
- Transhumanism and bioconservatism
- Neuroethics
- The simulation argument
- The search for extraterrestrial life
