Adam Thierer clashes with Catholic ethicists over human enhancement and transhumanism
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-15
Tech policy scholar Adam Thierer responds to backlash from Catholics and ethicists over his tweet on human enhancement, who accused him of being a 'transhumanist freak' or conflating treatment with eugenics.
Thierer argues his critics haven't read his decades of writing on humanity's relationship with technology, including Catholic perspectives, and links essays covering tensions between humanism and technologies from birth control and gene editing to implants, medical AI/ML, nanotech and synthetic biology.
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