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Sci-Fi Ethics
Regulate the frontier of progress by policing sentient AI rights and genetic editing.
| Time | Session | Arc | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30am | Sentience | AI Sentience | Is sentience AI possible? How would we know if it were to happen? |
| 9:00am | Digital Afterlife | Define the property rights of uploaded personality constructs. | |
| 9:30am | Virtual Economies | Enforce real-world taxation on high-value virtual game assets. | |
| 9:55am | Recess | Break | -- |
| 10:15am | Space Jurisdictions | Off-World Law | Establish jurisdiction for crimes committed on Mars colonies. |
| 10:45am | Space Resources | Allocate sovereign ownership of minerals mined from asteroids. | |
| 11:15am | Global Technocracy | When does AI become more capable of global governance than humanity? | |
| 11:40am | Lunch | Break | -- |
| 12:25pm | Transhumanism | Genetic Engineering | Determine the permissible circumstances for human genetic engineering. |
| 12:55pm | Head Transplants | Evaluate identity and consent issues regarding full head transplants. | |
| 1:25pm | Anti-Aging | Balance accepting natural mortality against pursuing biological immortality. | |
| 1:50pm | Neural Frontiers | Cognitive Implants | Regulate neural chips that provide unfair academic advantages. |
| 2:20pm | Neural Ad-Space | Prohibit advertisers from broadcasting into user's sleeping minds. | |
| 2:50pm | Privacy | How do you regulate emerging technologies used in unprecedented ways? | |
| 3:15pm | Finish |
Sci-Fi Ethics
Full Day
Govern the extreme frontiers of post-humanity and space colonisation.