트랜스휴머니즘과 우생학

트랜스휴머니즘은 우생학에서 파생되었다.

Shane Legg was most aligned with the more extreme ideologies linked to the pursuit of AGI, including one that had been decades in the making, according to his former colleagues. Known as transhumanism, the idea had controversial roots and a history that helped explain why AI’s builders sometimes neglected the nasty, more current side effects of the technology. …

The core idea stems back to the 1940s and 1960s when an evolutionary biologist named Julian Huxley joined and ran British Eugenics Society. The eugenics movement proposed that humans should improve themselves through selective breeding, and it flourished in British universities and among the country’s intellectual and upper classes. Huxley himself came from an aristocratic family (his brother Aldous wrote Brave new world), and he believed society’s upper crust was genetically superior. Lower-class people needed to be weeded out like a bad crop and subjected to forced sterilization. “(They) are reproducing too fast,” Huxley wrote.

When the Nazis latched on to the eugenics movement, Huxley decided it needed a rebrand. He conined a new term, transhumanism, in an essay saying that alongside proper breeding, humanity could also “transcend itself” through science and technology.

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