The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) was founded in 2004 by philosopher Nick Bostrom and bioethicist James Hughes. The IEET is incorporated in the United States as a non-profit 501c3 organization. The IEET’s Board of Directors currently come from Spain, Canada, the UK and the United States.

The IEET is a think tank that seeks to contribute to understanding of the likely impact of "emerging technologies" on individuals and societies. It proposes to do so by "promoting and publicizing the work of thinkers who examine the social implications of scientific and technological advance" (a number of such thinkers are offered honorary positions as IEET Fellows). The Institute also aims to influence the development of policies that distribute the benefits and reduce the risks of technological advancement.

The Institute works closely with the World Transhumanist Association (WTA), an international membership-based nonprofit organization with similar goals, also founded and chaired by Dr. Bostrom, and also currently served by Dr. Hughes as its executive director. However, unlike the WTA, the IEET is not expressly identified as a transhumanist organization. Individuals who have accepted appointments as Fellows with the IEET are likely to be sympathetic to the Institute's goals, but they have expressed a wide range of views about emerging technologies and not all identify themselves as transhumanists.

Fellows

• Russell Blackford
• Marshall Brain
• Riccardo Campa
• Dale Carrico
• Jamais Cascio
• Aubrey de Grey

• Linda MacDonald Glenn
• Andy Miah
• Ramez Naam
• Douglas Rushkoff
• Wrye Sententia
• Mike Treder

See also

• Bioconservatism
• Bioethics
• Biopolitics
• Human enhancement
• Ethics
• Human enhancement
• Morphological freedom

• Neuroethics
• Procreative beneficence
• Procreative liberty
• Human enhancement
• Reprogenetics
• Technocriticism
• Techno-progressivism

External links

• Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

International nongovernmental organizations