• Sam Adams
• Dr. Rodney Brooks
• Jamais Cascio
• Dr. Ben Goertzel
• Dr. John S. Hall
• Dr. Charles L. Harper, Jr.
• Dr. James Hughes
• Neil Jacobstein
• Steve Jurvetson
• Dr. Peter Norvig
• Dr. Stephen Omohundro
• Dr. Barney Pell
• Christine Peterson
• Paul Saffo
• Peter Thiel
• Peter Voss
• Wendell Wallach
• Eliezer Yudkowsky

Biography

Dr. James "J." Hughes' Abstract

Dr. James "J." Hughes serves as the executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, where he produces the weekly syndicated public affairs talk show Changesurfer Radio. Dr. Hughes is a sociologist who teaches Health Policy at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut. He is the author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future, and is working on a second book on neurotechnology, tentatively titled Cyborg Buddha: Using Neurotechnologies to Enhance Virtue. He is editor of the Journal of Evolution and Technology, a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and the Working Group on Ethics and Technology at Yale University. Dr. Hughes speaks on medical ethics, health care policy, and future studies worldwide, and often appears on radio and television. He lives in rural eastern Connecticut with his wife, the artist Monica Bock, and their two children.