Introduction

Technopolitics and the Technoprogressive Perspective?

• Enlightenment roots
• Structure of political ideology
• Proto-transhumanists
• SciTech polarization in 21^st century
• Technoprogressivism
• Technoprogressive Declaration 2014
• Anticipatory public policy

Section 1: Science Policy

1.1  Science for the People

• Democratic science policy: proactionary vs precautionary
• History of federal bioethics
• Big Science Initiatives:
  • Human Genome Project
  • National Nanotechnology Initiative
  • EU Human Brain Project
  • National Artificial Intelligence Initiative
• (Re-establishing the) Office of Technology Assessment
• EU science policy
• Chinese science policy
• Dept of the Future

1.1a Strengthening Sci-Tech, Engineering and Math Education

1.1b Pushing Back Intellectual Property Overreach

1.1c Nurturing Innovation Ecosystems

1.1d Science for a Longevity Dividend

1.2 Proactionary Regulations for Safety and Efficacy

1.2a FDA Reform

• Beyond therapy v enhancement
• Biomarkers for aging

1.2b Regulating Synthetic Biology, GMOs and Nanotechnology

1.2e Regulating Robots and Artificial Intelligence

Section 2: The Rights of the Person

2a What are Rights, and Who Should Have Them?

• Right to enhance vs equitable enablement
• From enhancements to be banned to obligations to enhance

2.1 Health and Longevity

2.1a Ensuring Access to the Longevity Dividend

• Argument for the Longevity Dividend
• Ensuring universal access

2.2 Body Autonomy

2.2a Regulating Genetic Enhancement and Germline Engineering

2.2b Disability and The Right to Enabling Technologies

2.2c Reproductive Rights and Genetic Self-Ownership

• Ensuring equal access to reproductive health and assistive technologies
• Rights to germinal choice as a reproductive right

2.2d PostGenderism

• Technologies contribute to blurring of gender binary
• Rights to gender self-determination

2.2e Right to a Self-Determined Death

• The need for a new definition of death
• Choosing when to die and life extension

2.3 Cognitive Liberty

1.2a Regulating Cognitive Enhancement Drugs and Devices

• Therapy vs enhancement
• Behavioral interventions for brain health
• Drugs for brain health
• Gene therapies for brain health
• Implants for cognitive enhancement
• Clinical testing regime
  • Transgenic animals
  • Testing on disabled humans

2.3b Education Access and Reform

• A right to higher education and student debt
• Virtualization
• AI, Big Data & personalization of curriculum
• Gamification in education
• Badgification and micro-degrees
• Education for life in a jobless future

2.3c Access to Knowledge and the Net

• Unequal access
• Public broadband

2.3d Decriminalizing Psychoactive Drugs and Devices

• Making drug policy consistent with assessments of risks
• Cannabis and psychedelic decriminalization
• De-regulating cognitive enhancement and mood modification

2.3e Surveillance and the Right to Privacy

• Surveillance capitalism
• GDPR and the EU AI policy proposals
• Facial recognition

2.3f Decarceration and Moral Enhancement

• Predictive policing
• Ubiquitous surveillance
• Ankle monitors
• Moral enhancement therapies for criminal rehabilitation

2.3g Gun Control

• Gun control and regulating dangerous technologies
• 3D printed guns

2.4 Economic Security and PostCapitalism

2.4a Anticipating Technological Unemployment

• Policies to slow technological unemployment
• Do higher minimum wages promote automation?
• Expanding public sector employment
• Shrinking the work week/year/life
• Can everyone be re-educated for the remaining jobs?
• Enhanced vs unenhanced workers

2.4b Expanding the Social Wage: UBI & Public Services

• Arguments for the complementarity of UBI and social services

2.4c Longevity and the retirement age

• Old age dependency ratio, raising the retirement age and universalizing Social Security (UBI)

2.4d Public Property and Platform Coops

2.4e AI, IOT & Economic Planning

• The socialist calculation debate: Does AI+IOT enable a planned economy?

2.5 Political Empowerment and Cyborg Democracy

2.5a The Automated State: Transparency and Accountability for Algorithmic Governance

• Democratic transparency and accountability of the state
• Expertise and technocracy
• Automation of law, police, military
• Automation of bureaucracy and social services
• Authoritarian surveillance: China
• Libertarian paternalism and nudge algorithms

2.5b Algorithmic bias and authoritarianism, and democratizing the Net

• Using AI tools to detect and correct algorithmic bias, disinformation and harassment
• The Techlash and the convergence of state and corporate Big Data

2.5c Citizen Cyborgs: Technologies for Democratic Participation

• Experiments with electronically-mediated activism, virtual parties, and electronic democracy
• Using AI tools for democratic participation

2.6 Beyond Human-Racism to Rights of the Person

• From human rights to personhood rights

2.6a The Future of Racism

• Debates over race in biological research
• The technological erosion of the myth of race

2.6b Rights for NonHuman Animal Persons

• Campaign for nonhuman personhood rights
• Transgenic animals and chimeras
• Uplift

2.6c Rights for Enhanced, Uploaded and Machine Minds

• What would uploads or machines need to demonstrate to be rights-bearers?

Section 3: Global Peace, Democracy and Security

3.1 Limitations of the Nation-State and the Need for Democratized Transnational Governance

3.1a Global Democracy and Transnational Institutions

• Why global challenges require global governance solutions
• Prospects for internationalism after the rise of fascism

3.1b Transnational Taxes to Support a Global State

3.1c Transnational Law Enforcement

3.1d Transnational Medical Regulation

• International IP and humanitarian exemptions
• Global harmonization of clinical regulation
• Medical toruism
• International competitive pressures for enhancement

3.2 Global Catastrophic Risk Mitigation

3.2a Catastrophic Risk Assessment and Mitigation

• How should we think about future risks and how do include foresight into public policy?

3.2b Climate Change and Geoengineering

3.2c Space Law and Near-Earth Objects

3.2d Building a Global Immune System for Pandemics and BioTerrorism

3.2e The Future of War, WMDs and Global Security

• Supersoldiers
• Bioweapons, cyberweapons and neuroweapons
• Space militarization
• Prospects for arms control

3.2f Cybersecurity and AI

• Cybersecurity as a platform for regulating the risks of emergent a-life and AGI

3.2g Building Civilizational Resilience

• What is the tech design policy agenda for resilience to catastrophic risks? (Energy, water, food, information decentralization)

Section 4: Human Destiny

4.1 Social Ecology, Futurism, Millennialism and the Singularity

• Corporate futurism, catastrophism and millennialism
• The Singularity

4.2 Asteroids, the Moon and Space Colonization

• Who owns space resources?
• Outer Space Treaty
• Space militarization
• Public vs private colonization

4.3 Posthumanity

• What are the limits of legal/political equality between humans and posthumans?