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IHEU- Appignani Humanist Center for Bioethics and
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies present

Human Rights for the 21st Century
Rights of the Person to Technological Self-Determination

May 11-13, 2007
New York City

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Bill Hibbard Ph.D.

Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Bill Hibbard is a Senior Scientist at the Space Science and Engineering Center of the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He works on visualization and machine intelligence. He is principal author of the Vis5D, Cave5D and VisAD open source visualization systems. Vis5D was the first open source 3-D visualization system and is the leading system for animated 3-D visualization of weather simulations. Cave5D is the most widely used software system for scientific visualization in immersive virtual reality. VisAD is the leading visualization system written in Java. Bill Hibbard is also author of the book Super-Intelligent Machines and several articles about the Technological Singularity.

The Technology of Mind and a New Social Contract Listen to talk here

The progress of biology, neuroscience and computer science makes it clear that some time during the twenty first century we will master the technologies of mind and life. We will build machines more intelligent than ourselves, and modify our own brains and bodies to increase our intelligence, live indefinitely and make other changes. We live together according to a social contract, consisting of our laws, morals and conventions governing our interactions. This social contract is based on assumptions we rarely question: that all humans have roughly the same intelligence, that we have limited life spans, and that we share a set of motives as part of our human nature. The technologies of mind and life will invalidate these assumptions and inevitably change our social contract in fundamental ways. We need to prepare for these new technologies so that they change the world in ways we want rather than just stumbling into a world we don’t want.