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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.

“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

Brave New Horizon
Where will technology lead the human race?

The meaning of sex
Sex, Society and the Soul

Love Story
Can love only be known in short doses?

A radical step to gender equality
Making childbirth a technical phenomenon

Is Big Data A Big Mistake?
The stories left behind Big Data
Anders Sandberg Articles
More Videos

Doing Right and Feeling Good
Is morality about thinking or feeling?

Love, Life and Being Free
Do we need lifelong love to be happy?

Overcoming death
Does fearing death prevent us from fully living?

Conditions for Creativity
Does censorship create great art?

Love Is the Drug
Can we have a pill that sparks love?

Planet of the Clones
Should we clone human beings?

Securing Our Future
Anders Sandberg | How to avoid global disasters

Lost in Space
How far can we go with space travel?

Manufacturing Love
How to make romance last

Big tech and lost promises
Will regulation solve our problems with Big Tech?

Preparing for Utopia
An interview with transhumanist Anders Sandberg

Are you an illusion?
Reshaping the self

A radical step to gender equality
Making childbirth a technical phenomenon

Living forever
Should we want to live forever?

Technology in trouble
Getting to grips with the future of technology

The Malthusian catastrophe
The perils of population

The meaning of sex
Sex, Society and the Soul

Love and other drugs
Are psychedelics the love potion of the future?

Electric brains
A journey through 'wireheading'

The accurate, the perfect and the dangerous
The potential and the threat of data

Forging the transhumanist future
An interview with Anders Sandberg

Getting everything, losing everything
The dawn of a new reality?

Lost in the Matrix
Are we living in a computer simulation?

How volcanoes could change the world
The power and promise of geoengineering

If it doesn't kill you
Do we need suffering to lead a meaningful life?

What's wrong with us?
Is it time for AI to do more to help doctors?

Ancient traits in the modern world
Is our neurobiology at odds with the modern world?
More Articles

Transgression and sexual desire

Does consciousness have a gender?

Simone de Beauvoir and the Ethics of Seduction

Language and Reality Beyond Gender

Love transcends the self

The false freedom of the female gaze

Consciousness has no gender

Sexual desire is political

The case for abolishing the family

The myth of the one true feminism

Rewriting romance

How to solve the ageing population problem

'Toxic masculinity' is not a useful description

The radical future of humanity without childbirth

The communication crisis

The right to no sex: a case for celibacy

The myth of man the hunter

The high priests of effective altruism

Love and Beauty after Feminism

What Can We Do About Collective Narcissism?

Meritocracy Is Good But We Don't Have It

Rationalising Suicide

Hannah Arendt On Why You Must Break Your Bubble

Existence and inequality

The future of race relations

The XX Factor

Cosmopolitanism and the Mixed Blessings of the Windrush Scandal - An Interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah

The future of feminism

Judith Butler: Gender is not a culture war

Wittgenstein and how to debate your enemy