{"id":162678,"date":"2023-04-23T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/post-scarcity-civilizations-cognitive-enhancement-anders-sandberg-foresight-senior-fellow"},"modified":"2023-04-23T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T15:25:09","slug":"post-scarcity-civilizations-cognitive-enhancement-anders-sandberg-foresight-senior-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/post-scarcity-civilizations-cognitive-enhancement-anders-sandberg-foresight-senior-fellow","title":{"rendered":"Post Scarcity Civilizations &amp; Cognitive Enhancement | Anders Sandberg, Foresight Senior Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Post Scarcity Civilizations &amp; Cognitive Enhancement | Anders Sandberg, Foresight Senior Fellow\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DZfh3JRlc44?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Zoom Transcription: <a href=\"https:\/\/otter.ai\/s\/j26AyG6FRGCfmHCNLGe5Pg\">https:\/\/otter.ai\/s\/j26AyG6FRGCfmHCNLGe5Pg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Help us welcome Anders Sandberg to the Foresight family! As a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, we are proud that he will be joining a fantastic group of Foresight Senior Research Fellows: <a href=\"https:\/\/foresight.org\/about-us\/senior-research-fellows\/\">https:\/\/foresight.org\/about-us\/senior-research-fellows\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anders will present a cherry-picked selection of his epic Grand Futures book project: What is available in the \u201cnearer-term\u201d for life if our immature civilization can make it past the tech\/insight\/coordination hurdles? We\u2019ll focus on post-scarcity civilizations to get a sense of what is possible just past current human horizons in the hope it may inspire us to double down on solving humanity\u2019s current challenges to unlock this next level.<\/p>\n<p>Based on our Zoom polls, cognitive enhancement features as high interest for many of you and is also one of Anders\u2019 main research interests. Let\u2019s add a brief tour through different cognitive enhancement scenarios, their ethical considerations, and how to make progress in the right directions.<br \/> Join us with your questions and comments and let\u2019s give Anders a warm welcome into the Foresight community!<\/p>\n<p>About Anders:<br \/> Anders Sandberg is a Foresight Senior Fellow and a Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute from the University of Oxford. Anders Sandberg\u2019s research at FHI centers on management of low-probability high-impact risks, estimating the capabilities of future technologies, and very long-range futures. Topics of particular interest include global catastrophic risk, cognitive biases, cognitive enhancement, collective intelligence, neuroethics, and public policy.<\/p>\n<p>Anders is a Senior Research Fellow on the ERC UnPrEDICT Programme. He is a research associate to the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. He is on the advisory boards of a number of organizations and often debates science and ethics in international media.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/post-scarcity-civilizations-cognitive-enhancement-anders-sandberg-foresight-senior-fellow\">Continue reading \u201cPost Scarcity Civilizations &amp; Cognitive Enhancement | Anders Sandberg, Foresight Senior Fellow\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoom Transcription: https:\/\/otter.ai\/s\/j26AyG6FRGCfmHCNLGe5Pg. Help us welcome Anders Sandberg to the Foresight family! As a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, we are proud that he will be joining a fantastic group of Foresight Senior Research Fellows: https:\/\/foresight.org\/about-us\/senior-research-fellows\/ Anders will present a cherry-picked selection of his epic Grand Futures book project: What is available in the \u201cnearer-term\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,47,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-neuroscience","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}