{"id":77820,"date":"2018-04-14T13:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T20:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/becoming-transhuman-the-complicated-future-of-robot-and-advanced-sapient-rights"},"modified":"2018-04-14T13:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T20:42:21","slug":"becoming-transhuman-the-complicated-future-of-robot-and-advanced-sapient-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/becoming-transhuman-the-complicated-future-of-robot-and-advanced-sapient-rights","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Transhuman: The Complicated Future of Robot and Advanced Sapient Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/becoming-transhuman-the-complicated-future-of-robot-and-advanced-sapient-rights.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My article for the Cato Institute via Cato Unbound is out. Cato is one of the leading think tanks in the world, so I\u2019m excited they are covering transhumanism:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Zoltan Istvan describes a complicated future when humans aren\u2019t the only sapients around anymore. Citizenship for \u201cSophia\u201d was a publicity stunt, but it won\u2019t always be so. Istvan insists that if technology continues on the path it has traveled, then there is only one viable option ahead for humanity: We must merge with our creations and \u201cgo full cyborg.\u201d If we do not, then machines may easily replace us.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato-unbound.org\/2018\/04\/13\/zoltan-istvan\/becoming-transhuman-complicated-future-robot-advanced-sapient-rights\">https:\/\/www.cato-unbound.org\/2018\/04\/13\/zoltan-istvan\/becomi...ent-rights<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My article for the Cato Institute via Cato Unbound is out. Cato is one of the leading think tanks in the world, so I\u2019m excited they are covering transhumanism: Zoltan Istvan describes a complicated future when humans aren\u2019t the only sapients around anymore. Citizenship for \u201cSophia\u201d was a publicity stunt, but it won\u2019t always be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77820","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}