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Shou-Mei Li holds the hand of her husband Hsien-Wen Li, who is an Alzheimer's patient, at their home in San Francisco, in this photo taken, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011.  (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Shou-Mei Li holds the hand of her husband Hsien-Wen Li, who is an Alzheimer's patient, at their home in San Francisco, in this photo taken, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

The Ethics of Life Extension

Brian Green, director of technology ethics, interviewed by the "I'm a Mortal" podcast.

In this episode, the "I'm a Mortal" podcast featured Brian Green, director, technology ethics, to share his journey into the world of ethics and the issues facing the world today, including the regulation of rapidly developing technologies like artificial intelligence, and the ethics of life extension therapies.

"The more medical technology we have, the more likely we are to survive accidents or aging. That's a normal way to medically think about life extension technologies. Then there's the question of what bad could happen from these things, and there are some dangerous technologies that transhumanism and radical life extension might be exploring, artificial intelligence being one of them."

Brian Green, director of technology ethics, interviewed by the "I'm a Mortal" podcast.

Ethics
media, technology