Interstellar Ethics and the Goldilocks Evolutionary Sequence: Can We Expect ETI to Be Moral?

Rappaport, Margaret Boone; Corbally, C. J.; Szocik, Konrad

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“…Haramia & DeMarines (2021) provided an ethical assessment of whether and how SETI and METI should be performed, arguing for a planetocentric and ecosystemic approach to making these decisions. Rappaport et al (2021) explored how humanity may assess the presence of ethics in ETI in different contact scenarios. Cakir (2021) discussed legal considerations regarding contact with ETI, in the context of the Mars Agreement Including Human Settlements.…”

Section: Contact and Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligencementioning

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SETI in 2021

Huston,

Wright

2022

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In this second installment of SETI in 20xx, we very briefly and subjectively review developments in SETI in 2021. Our primary focus is 93 papers and books published or made public in 2021, which we sort into six broad categories: results from actual searches, new search methods and instrumentation, target and frequency selection, the development of technosignatures, theory of ETIs, and social aspects of SETI.

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Section: Contact and Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligencementioning

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SETI in 2021

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Wright

2022

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The Bioethics of Space Exploration

Szocik

2023

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Human exploration of space contains many ethical challenges. Future long-term space missions will generate specific problems and place new demands on humanity. One of them is the concept of human enhancement, primarily through gene editing, for the implementation of long-term space missions. This book hypothesizes that large-scale application of human enhancement may be necessary to enable space exploration and exploitation. The book discusses the many arguments for and against human genetic modification for space missions. It also considers the most controversial type of modification, germline gene editing, and presents many arguments in favor of applying even radical and considered controversial forms of human enhancements today. The book shows that the environment of future space missions is a unique and different ethical environment from Earth’s and requires a modified bioethical approach. The bioethics of space missions should be syncretic, issue-driven, and highly dependent on the purpose of space missions. The book points out the importance of discussing future scenarios of human development. Space bioethics is presented as part of futures studies. The book considers futures of humanity in space that are possible, probable, preferable, but also dystopian. The aim of these considerations is to prevent the development of these worst-case scenarios. The book suggests that we should look to the development of biomedicine with greater optimism and hope. Human enhancement via gene editing for space missions is presented as a pragmatic tool rooted in the principle of well-being.

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The Bioethics of Space Exploration

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Interstellar Ethics and the Goldilocks Evolutionary Sequence: Can We Expect ETI to Be Moral?

Cited by 15 publications

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