Natasha Vita-More
"Currently Executive Director of Humanity+, Inc., a 501c3 non-profit educational organization, she is focusing on conferences, prizes, and addressing what it means to be human in an AI-driven world.
"On the academic side, she is Senior Professor of graduate and undergraduate programs at the University of Advancing Technology, and has lectured at Harvard, Stanford, Virginia Commonwealth, Cambridge (UK) Aalto (Finland), and Polytechnic (Hong Kong) universities. Natasha continues to work with academic institutions, non-profit organizations and business about human futures. She is a track adviser at the Singularity University, on the Scientific Board of Lifeboat Foundation, a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Visiting Scholar at 21st Century Medicine, and advises non-profit organizations including Adaptive A.I. and Alcor Life Extension Foundation. She has been a consultant to IBM on the future of human performance.
"Natasha is a proponent human rights, morphological freedom, and ethical means for human enhancement. Her writings have been published in Rejuvenation Research Journal, Artifact, Technoetic Arts, Nanotechnology Perceptions, Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology, Death and Anti-Death. She had a bi-monthly column in Nanotechnology Now, has been a Guest Editor of The Global Spiral academic journal and on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Green Nanotechnology. Natasha is co-editor of The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Look at Philosophy and Technology (2012) Wiley-Blackwell. Natasha authored Create / Recreate: the 3rd Millennial Culture on the emerging cybernetic culture and the future of humanism and the arts and sciences. She co-authored One on One Fitness, a guide to nutrition and aerobic and anaerobic exercise for women. Currently she is writing a chapter for Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution (Oxford University Press)." [1]
- Former president, Extropy Institute
