Figure 03, a humanoid robot, speaks during the Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit roundtable in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 25. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
July 7 (UPI) -- Like tectonic plates colliding beneath the surface, humanism and the humanities are confronting movements that question long-held definitions of the human person.
This is more than an academic dispute. Advances in artificial intelligence, biotechnology and human enhancement are forcing society to reconsider where the natural ends and the artificial begins. They also raise an urgent question: will technology remain at the service of humanity, or will human beings gradually adapt to the demands of the systems they have created?
Faced with this dizzying, monumental shift that threatens the human condition, the great voices of secular philosophy and thought have fallen silent. The silence of institutions entrusted with safeguarding humanist principles and ethical values is troubling.
Three visions of humanity
