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Anders Sandberg

Neuroscientist and senior fellow at the Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute.

“We are smart enough to realize that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.”

Anders Sandberg is radical futurist determined to surpass the limitations of the human form. Going above and beyond his visionary research as a senior fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, he is a self-described 'academic jack of all trades', co-founder of and writer for the think tank Eudoxa, and chaired the Swedish Transhumanist Association for 4 years.

An ardent transhumanist, Anders comes to the festival brimming with innovative ideas about the ethical and social implications of future technologies.

'He might just be the most interesting academic at Oxford' - Robert Wiblin and Keiran Harris.

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“We are smart enough to realize that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.”

Anders Sandberg is radical futurist determined to surpass the limitations of the human form. Going above and beyond his visionary research as a senior fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, he is a self-described 'academic jack of all trades', co-founder of and writer for the think tank Eudoxa, and chaired the Swedish Transhumanist Association for 4 years.

An ardent transhumanist, Anders comes to the festival brimming with innovative ideas about the ethical and social implications of future technologies.

'He might just be the most interesting academic at Oxford' - Robert Wiblin and Keiran Harris.

Anders Sandberg Videos

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Anders Sandberg,Richard K. Morgan,Victoria Turk,Nicky Ashwell

Brave New Horizon

Where will technology lead the human race?
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Anders Sandberg,Massimo Pigliucci,Shini Somara,Nadine Dijkstra,Roman Yampolskiy

Consciousness in the clouds

Can we upload our minds to the cloud?
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Mark Salter,Anders Sandberg,Helen Croydon,Naomi Goulder

Love Story

Can love only be known in short doses?

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Anders Sandberg,Sunetra Gupta,Peter Godfrey-Smith,Curt Jaimungal,Samir Okasha

The end of evolution

Is nature’s influence on survival fading?
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James Ladyman,Anders Sandberg,Noortje Marres,Timandra Harkness

Is Big Data A Big Mistake?

The stories left behind Big Data

Anders Sandberg Articles

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Anders Sandberg,Alexis Papazoglou

Hacking Love Isn’t Cheating
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Anders Sandberg

Manufacturing Love

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Anders Sandberg,Eliane Glaser,Simon Baron-Cohen,Peter Dews

Doing Right and Feeling Good

Is morality about thinking or feeling?

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Bella dePaulo,Heidi Rice,Anders Sandberg,Robert Rowland Smith

Love, Life and Being Free

Do we need lifelong love to be happy?
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Patricia MacCormack,Anders Sandberg,Janne Teller,Rowan Pelling

Overcoming death

Does fearing death prevent us from fully living?
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Peter Curran,Anders Sandberg,Jenny Boyd,Allen Jones

Conditions for Creativity

Does censorship create great art?
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Anders Sandberg

Love Is the Drug

Can we have a pill that sparks love?
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Hilary Rose,Barnaby Martin,Ian Wilmut,Anders Sandberg

Planet of the Clones

Should we clone human beings?
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Anders Sandberg

Securing Our Future

Anders Sandberg | How to avoid global disasters
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John Ellis,Anders Sandberg,Kierann Shah,Caroline Williams

Lost in Space

How far can we go with space travel?
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Anders Sandberg

Manufacturing Love

How to make romance last
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Isabel Hilton,Anders Sandberg,Henry Marsh,Anna Kent

Living forever

Should we want to live forever?
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Isabel Hilton,Natalie Bennett,Anders Sandberg,Paul Morland

The Malthusian catastrophe

The perils of population
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Finn Mackay,Anders Sandberg,Janne Teller,Niki Seth-Smith

The meaning of sex

Sex, Society and the Soul
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Rupert Sheldrake,Anders Sandberg,Myriam Francois,Ella Whelan

Love and other drugs

Are psychedelics the love potion of the future?
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Anders Sandberg

Preparing for Utopia

An interview with transhumanist Anders Sandberg
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Anders Sandberg

Electric brains

A journey through 'wireheading'
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Anders Sandberg,Sunetra Gupta,Peter Godfrey-Smith,Curt Jaimungal,Samir Okasha

The end of evolution

Is nature’s influence on survival fading?
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Anders Sandberg,Linda Yueh,Stephanie Hare,Michael Parker

The accurate, the perfect and the dangerous

The potential and the threat of data
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Anders Sandberg,Priyadarshini Karve,Silkie Carlo

Technology in trouble

Getting to grips with the future of technology
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Anders Sandberg

Forging the transhumanist future

An interview with Anders Sandberg
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Anders Sandberg,Massimo Pigliucci,Shini Somara,Nadine Dijkstra,Roman Yampolskiy

Consciousness in the clouds

Can we upload our minds to the cloud?
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Anders Sandberg,Massimo Pigliucci,Maria Balaska

Getting everything, losing everything

The dawn of a new reality?
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Anders Sandberg,Massimo Pigliucci,Sabine Hossenfelder,Güneş Taylor,Anil Seth

Lost in the Matrix

Are we living in a computer simulation?
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Anders Sandberg

How volcanoes could change the world

The power and promise of geoengineering
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Julian Baggini,Havi Carel,Anders Sandberg,Susie Orbach

If it doesn't kill you

Do we need suffering to lead a meaningful life?
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Natalie Bennett,Anders Sandberg,Emily Grossman,David Healy

What's wrong with us?

Is it time for AI to do more to help doctors?
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Anders Sandberg,Sunetra Gupta,Güneş Taylor,Subrena Smith

Ancient traits in the modern world

Is our neurobiology at odds with the modern world?
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Anders Sandberg,Thangam Debbonaire,Polly Mackenzie,Luke Robert Mason,Damian Tambini

Big tech and lost promises

Will regulation solve our problems with Big Tech?
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Joanna Kavenna,Anders Sandberg,Dan Zahavi,Lisa Bortolotti

Are you an illusion?

Reshaping the self
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Anders Sandberg,Güneş Taylor,Kristen Ghodsee,Mary Harrington

A radical step to gender equality

Making childbirth a technical phenomenon

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Victoria Brooks

Transgression and sexual desire

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Sophie Grace Chappell

Does consciousness have a gender?
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Sarah LaChance Adams

Simone de Beauvoir and the Ethics of Seduction
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Tamar Kricheli Katz,Tali Regev

Language and Reality Beyond Gender

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Alexandra Gustafson

Love transcends the self
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Emma Syea

The false freedom of the female gaze
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Olivia Fane

Consciousness has no gender
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Tom O'Shea

Sexual desire is political
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Sophie Lewis

The case for abolishing the family
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The myth of the one true feminism
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Carrie Jenkins

Rewriting romance
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Charles Goodhart

How to solve the ageing population problem
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Michael Kimmel

'Toxic masculinity' is not a useful description
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The radical future of humanity without childbirth
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Ronald Riggio,Alan Crawley

The communication crisis
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Lisabeth During

The right to no sex: a case for celibacy
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Kimberly Hamlin

The myth of man the hunter
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Jonathan Anomaly

The high priests of effective altruism
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Griselda Pollock

Love and Beauty after Feminism
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Agnieszka Golec de Zavala

What Can We Do About Collective Narcissism?
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Thomas Mulligan

Meritocracy Is Good But We Don't Have It
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Michael Irwin

Rationalising Suicide
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Siobhan Kattago

Hannah Arendt On Why You Must Break Your Bubble
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Existence and inequality
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The future of race relations
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Alison Wolf

The XX Factor
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The future of feminism
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Judith Butler

Judith Butler: Gender is not a culture war
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