UVM bioethics cyborg lecture

1. Dr. Jeanann Boyce Professor of Computer Science and Business Montgomery College, Takoma Park Campus Bioethics and Technology: A Look at the Present and the Future

4. Part 1: Current Issues in Biotechnology: The Three Faces of AI

11. Disembodied and Distributed Intelligence: The Web as Neural Network

21. 3. Technogenics – Human/machine interfaces

25. Yorick cont’d

26. Alas, More Yorick Hip Joint Pacemakers

27. BioChips Implantable computer or organic chips that can monitor, control, provide feedback on different body functions, including neural activities

33. Tissue Engineering (cont’d)

34. Transgenics and Genetic Manipulation

35. Disembodied Tissues

36. Current Developments with Chimeras

38. Flying Pigs?

43. Chococeuticals

45. What Does It Mean to Be Human?

54. As different forms of Artificial Intelligence* in the technical environment emerge, the courts must determine where these creations fall on the continuum of personhood. * Including transgenic humanoids?

55. For the future: Expect intense cross-disciplinary debate, discussion, as new intelligent life is created through biotechnology .

56. For the Future???