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1 PROFESSOR NICK BOSTROM List of Media Appearances The Future of Humanity Institute Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology Oxford Martin School & Faculty of Philosophy Oxford University www.nickbostrom.com [My work has been covered extensively in the media. I have done over 500 interviews for television news and documentaries, radio, newspapers, and magazines, including BBC, CNN, NBC, ABC News, PBS, CBC, Discovery Channel, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Times, The New Yorker, Der Spiegel, The Independent, the Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Observer, Times Higher Educational Supplement, Le Devoir, Toronto and Ottawa Suns, L’Hebdo, Utildnings Radion, Boston Globe, San Diego Union-Tribune, The Sunday Herald, Nature, New Scientist, Science & Avenir, Volkskrant, Discover Magazine, Forbes, and many others.] Media list - Interviews 1. New Scientist. September 2012. Interviewed about illiciting ‘ethical’ behaviours and responses in AI through ‘emotional’ programming. 2. Akzia Newspaper (Russian independent newspaper). September 2012. Interviewed about technological innovations and future implications. 3. BBC Documentary. August 2012. Interviewed about the future of human evolution. 4. BBC World Service. August 2012. Interviewed about the Paralympics and the ethical issues of technical enhancements. 5. Austraian Broadcasting Corporation. August 2012. Interviewed about technology, the future, and the Alpbach Forum. 6. WIRED. August 2012. Interviewed about the ethics of transhumanism. 7. Family Circle Magazine. August 2012. Interviewed about bodies of the future and ethical enhancements. 8. The Independent (documentary pitch). August 2012. Interviewed on tech forecasting. 9. ISIS. (Oxford student magazine). August 2012. Interviewed about cognitive enhancements. 10. APA - Austria Presse Agentu. July 2012. Interviewed about big picture scenarios for humanity, including the most important crucial considerations – and how can they transform into reality and the impact of future transformative technologies. 11. Global Policy journal. (video interview for website). July 2012. Interviewed about his existential risk work www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SXA0Lsy1uU&feature=player_embedded. 12. New Scientist. July 2012. Interviewed about the nature of reality and the simulation argument. 13. George Carey (documentary filmmaker). July 2012. Interviewed about transhumanism and the singularity.

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PROFESSOR NICK BOSTROM

List of Media Appearances

The Future of Humanity Institute

Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology

Oxford Martin School & Faculty of Philosophy

Oxford University

www.nickbostrom.com

[My work has been covered extensively in the media. I have done over 500 interviews for television news and

documentaries, radio, newspapers, and magazines, including BBC, CNN, NBC, ABC News, PBS, CBC,

Discovery Channel, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Times, The New Yorker, Der Spiegel, The

Independent, the Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Observer, Times Higher Educational

Supplement, Le Devoir, Toronto and Ottawa Suns, L’Hebdo, Utildnings Radion, Boston Globe, San Diego

Union-Tribune, The Sunday Herald, Nature, New Scientist, Science & Avenir, Volkskrant, Discover Magazine,

Forbes, and many others.]

Media list - Interviews

1. New Scientist. September 2012. Interviewed about illiciting ‘ethical’ behaviours and responses in AI

through ‘emotional’ programming.

2. Akzia Newspaper (Russian independent newspaper). September 2012. Interviewed about technological

innovations and future implications.

3. BBC Documentary. August 2012. Interviewed about the future of human evolution.

4. BBC World Service. August 2012. Interviewed about the Paralympics and the ethical issues of technical

enhancements.

5. Austraian Broadcasting Corporation. August 2012. Interviewed about technology, the future, and the

Alpbach Forum.

6. WIRED. August 2012. Interviewed about the ethics of transhumanism.

7. Family Circle Magazine. August 2012. Interviewed about bodies of the future and ethical enhancements.

8. The Independent (documentary pitch). August 2012. Interviewed on tech forecasting.

9. ISIS. (Oxford student magazine). August 2012. Interviewed about cognitive enhancements.

10. APA - Austria Presse Agentu. July 2012. Interviewed about big picture scenarios for humanity, including

the most important crucial considerations – and how can they transform into reality and the impact of

future transformative technologies.

11. Global Policy journal. (video interview for website). July 2012. Interviewed about his existential risk work

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SXA0Lsy1uU&feature=player_embedded.

12. New Scientist. July 2012. Interviewed about the nature of reality and the simulation argument.

13. George Carey (documentary filmmaker). July 2012. Interviewed about transhumanism and the singularity.

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14. Channel 4 Television (documentary). July 2012. Interviewed about prosthetics and their implications for

future humans.

15. Blueprint Magazine. June 2012. Interviewed about existential risk work.

16. WIRED. June 2012. Contribution to the magazine’s monthly column, ‘The Big Question’, on the future

of human enhancement through technology.

17. Michael Tennesen. (science writer, writing book). June 2012. Interviewed about the future of evolution.

18. Jennifer Anyan (visual artist). June 2012. Interviewed about intersections between visual work and

human enhancement.

19. The New York Times. May 2012. Interviewed about the social and ethical implications of affective

computing.

20. CBS Smart Planet. June 2012. Interviewed about artificial intelligence, and its positive and negative

implications.

21. Sky Arts. May 2012. Interviewed for the series Objects of Desire (episode 5) about the meaning of objects,

and the kind of objects we would like to have in the future.

22. Annalee Newitz (science journalist). May 2012. Interviewed on how humans will survive the next mass

extinction.

23. Investment - Danske Banke (Danish magazine). April 2012. Interviewed about the end of the world.

www.danskebank.dk/Flash/ePages/Investering-04-2012/index.html (in Danish)

24. Valor Econômico, (Brazilian daily paper). April 2012. Interviewed about cognition enhancement (smart

drugs, thinking caps) and the prospect that they might become mainstream, in the workplace and in

academia.

25. Quick Roll Productions - The World Tomorrow (television discussion series). March 2012. Interviewed

about the ethical and strategic implications of technological advances.

26. Ciel et Espace (French Magazine). March 2012. Interviewed for special issue on the Fermi Paradox, about

the likelihood of life on other planets..

27. Galileu Magazine.(Brazilian science magazine). March 2012. Interviewed about the potential dangers of

new technologies and other threats to the human race.

28. Swedish National Television. March 2012. Interviewed about transhumanism’s vision for human

enhancement and what it means for us as a species to have control of our evolution for the first time.

29. Discovery Channel (six-part television series). February 2012. Interviewed on evolution and artificial

intelligence and the work of the Future of Humanity Institute.

30. The Atlantic. February 2012. Interviewed about existential risks.

http://robertwiblin.com/2012/03/25/nick-bostrom-interview-on-x-risk-in-the-atlantic/

31. NYU's Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program, and Scienceline. February 2012. Interviewed

about neuroenhancers and how they are handled in the pharmaceutical industry.

32. Triple Helix Society. (Cambridge University magazine). January 2012. Interviewed about science and ethical

impacts on wide society.

33. New Scientist. January 2012. Interviewed about existential threats to humanity in the long-term future.

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34. Bloomberg Business Week. December 2011. Interviewed about risks to humankind for “The End of the

World as We Know It” segment. (accompaniment to “Guardians of the Apocalypse” article:

www.businessweek.com/magazine/guardians-of-the-apocalypse-12152011.html).

35. BBC Radio 3. (British radio). December 2011. Interviewed for “Night Waves” programme about over-

population, future challenges relating to technology and ethics.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0186dpl

36. Le TEMPS (Swiss daily newspaper). December 2011. Interviewed for special issue about the new frontiers

of intelligence.

37. Capital (Bulgarian daily newspaper.) December 2011. Interviewed about the role of futurists in the

decision making process, whether predictions will become more accurate and more specific, and what

are the biggest trends in futurology today?

38. James Martin. (film project). November 2011. Interviewed by James Martin for a promotional film

addressing global issues of the future.

39. BBC Horizon. (science programming). November 2011. Interviewed for promo documentary on artificial

intelligence and Alan Turing.

40. Jay Scheib’s “World of Wires: Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems”. (theatrical performance piece).

Interviewed on November 2011 as this artistic enterprise was inspired by “Are You Living in a

Computer Simulation? World Premiere in New York City in January 2012, with international tour to

follow. www.thekitchen.org/wire and www.jayscheib.com/wires.

41. Faszination Apokalypse: Mythen und Theorien vom Untergang der Welt. Interviewed by Thomas Grüter

about end-of-the-world scenarios and probabilities. (Published November 2011 in German).

42. Scientific Etonian. (Eton College’s scientific student newspaper). November 2011. Interviewed about

artificial intelligence, superintelligence, and the simulation argument.

43. BBC News (technology news website). October 2011. Interviewed about “ideas that could change the

world” and how to predict the future. www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15483792

44. Vetandets värld (Swedish radio). October 2011. Interview for programme about technology's accelerating

development and transhumanism.

45. Vetandets värld (Swedish radio). October 2011. Interview for radio programme: “Man Becomes Machine,

Machine Becomes Man: The Next Step in Human Evolution?”

46. The Oxford Student (newspaper). October 2011. Interviewed about existential risk.

http://oxfordstudent.com/2011/11/30/nick-bostrom-on-the-future-of-humanity-institute/

47. John Nyzell (University of Lund). September 2011. Interview about liberal eugenics and human

enhancement.

48. Cosmos (Australian popular science magazine) September 2011. Interviewed for “Made to Order” about the

ethical questions of technology, medicine, and post-humanism.

www.cosmosmagazine.com/issues/2011/42/

49. Sciences et Avenir (French monthly magazine). September 2011. Interviewed about the future of mankind.

50. New Scientist. September 2011. Interviewed for “Ultimate Guide to the Multiverse” about multiverse

theories and simulated universes.

51. ISIS Magazine. (Oxford University student publication). September 2011. Interviewed about human

enhancement.

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52. Sveriges Radio (Swedish radio). August 2011. Interviewed about technology, transhumanism, and

communication, http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=2946

53. Channel 4 / Wellcome Trust. (television documentary.) August 2011. Interviewed about the ethics of

technology and medicine.

54. Scientific American (Rita J. King guest blog). July 2011. Interviewed for “Technogenic Disasters: A Deadly

New Normal for the Media”.

55. Science & Vie (French leading science/popular magazine). June 2011. Interviewed about global catastrophic

risks

56. Sole Møller (Danish freelance journalist). June 2011. Interviewed about brain training.

www.solemoller.com

57. New Scientist Magazine. June 2011. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

58. The Ego Trick: What Does It Mean To Be You? (book publication by Julian Baggini, Granta Books, 2011)

Interviewed about the ethics of enhancement and transhumanism.

59. Current Sponge (promotional pilot film: “The Real Limitless”). June 2011. Interviewed about cognitive

enhancement, physical performance and life expectancy enhancement, and post-human society.

60. Daan Paans (photographer). June 2011. Photographed for documentary about singularity,

transhumanism, and longevity.

61. Transhuman (documentary film by Titus Nachbauer). World Premiere in Amsterdam, May 2011. (Filmed

January 2011.) Interviewed about life extension, future technology and the risks related to machine

intelligence: www.transhumandoc.com/

62. BBC. May 2011. Interviewed for promotional series about big picture questions relating to politics and

science, the human experience, the world we live in and the possibilities the future holds.

63. Philosophy Bites (“Bioethics Bites”, BBC podcast). May 2011. Interviewed on bio-ethics and the simulation

argument.

64. Peapie Films (pilot film for BBC Television). May 2011. Interviewed about immortality, and the role of

knowledge as potentially catastrophic for humanity.

65. Malcolm Boyden Show, BBC Radio. (UK). May 2011. Interviewed about the impacts of future technology,

and about the risks and opportunities of those technological advances.

66. The European (German online magazine). May 2011. Interviewed about the future of humanity and the

ethics of technological development. http://theeuropean-magazine.com/282-bostrom-nick/283-

perfection-is-not-a-useful-concept

67. Dagens Nyheter (Swedish broadsheet). May 2011. Interviewed about the future of machine intelligence.

68. The Economist (Japanese edition). April 2011. Interviewed about whether political leaders may have

legitimate reasons to lie, and if so, what conditions and limits should that apply.

69. The Boston Globe (American newspaper). April 2011. Interviewed about the fate of humanity in the

inconceivably distant future.

70. IWC Media (BBC/Channel 4 Science pilot programme, UK). March 2011. Interviewed about wormholes,

time travel, parallel universes, and whether we live in a simulation.

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71. Wired UK (magazine). March 2011. Interviewed about what developments will enhance longevity in the

next decade.

72. Vrij Nederland. (Dutch magazine) March 2011. Interviewed about human enhancement, the future of

humanity, and the intelligence explosion.

73. Fast Company Magazine (American magazine). March 2011. Interviewed about transhumanism and

human enhancement.

74. 2011 Edge Question. March 2011. Contributed “A Game of Life and Looking for Generators”.

Distributed by John Brockman, the answers for 2011 addressed the question, “What scientific concept

would improve everyone’s cognitive toolkit?” http://edge.org/annual-question/what-scientific-concept-

would-improve-everybodys-cognitive-toolkit

75. Espace Franco Images (Canadian television documentary). February 2011. Interviewed about how science

and technology are impacting humanity, and how to examine future scenarios .

76. Fast Company Magazine (American magazine). January 2011. Interviewed about the philosophy and

biology of human enhancement.

77. Andrea Giulivi (art project: “Scores”). December 2010. Interviewed by film-maker for art project about

crucial considerations .

78. KZSU-FM (Stanford University radio station, American) for "Hearsay Culture" podcast. November 2010.

Interviewed about “crucial considerations,” ranging from artificial intelligence to information hazards.

www.hearsayculture.com/?p=694

79. The Meaning of the 21st Century (documentary film). October 2010 release. Interviewed by James Martin on

transhumanism, human extinction scenarios, and future technologies.

80. Mehr News Agency. (Iranian). October 2010. Interviewed about writing in the humanities.

81. BBC Horizon (flagship science programme on BBC Two, UK). October 2010. Interviewed about human

evolution.

82. FreedomLab Future Studies Institute (EU Thinktank). October 2010. Interviewed about the impacts

technology and society have upon each other.

83. De Groene Amsterdammer. (Dutch magazine) October 2010. Interviewed about transhumanism.

84. Chilliwack Times (Canadian magazine). September 2010. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

85. Mehr News Agency. (Iranian). September 2010. Interviewed about philosophical approaches to textual

analysis.

86. The Huffington Post (blog.) September 2010. Quoted in article about cosmological views (computer

simulation). www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-shostak/who-or-what-built-the-uni_b_706185.html

87. Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and also Sentient Developments (blogs). August 2010. Quoted

in article about human enhancement.

88. Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and also Sentient Developments (blog). August 2010.

Referenced as an expert in Singularity Studies.

89. Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and also Ethical Technologies (blog). August 2010. Quoted in

article about transhumanism.

90. Science for Humanity’s “Global Risk Register” project. August 2010. Interviewed about the need for a

global risk register and how the GRR community can address catastrophic risks.

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91. Der Standard (Austrian daily newspaper) and Fleisch (Austrian cultural magazine). August 2010.

Interviewed about the future of humanity in the context of the interdisciplinary mélange of

Humanities and Natural Science.

92. BBC Horizon (flagship science programme on BBC Two, UK). August 2010. Interviewed for documentary

about the nature of reality and Bostrom’s computer simulation theory.

93. BBC Horizon (flagship science programme on BBC Two, UK). August 2010. Interviewed for documentary

about the future of medicine, specifically new transplant technologies, artificial and cloned organs,

and neuroprosthetics.

94. Steadfast Television (UK). August 2010. Interviewed about genetics and envisioning a world where

reproduction is possible without the male gender.

95. New Scientist Magazine. August 2010. Interviewed about the results of Harvard’s “Hard Problems in

Social Science” Symposium (from April 2010).

96. Twister Films for National Geographic. August 2010. Interviewed about parallel worlds and the

multiverse.

97. Focus Magazine (Italian monthly magazine). August 2010. Issue 214. Interviewed as one among 12

individuals considered by the magazine to be among “the world’s most brilliant interdisciplinary

thinkers”.

98. Mehr News Agency. (Iranian). August 2010. Interviewed about the impact of technology on education,

particularly how online and traditional education environments compare.

99. The Guardian. (UK newspaper). July 2010. Interviewed about planning for global catastrophic risks.

100. Men’s Health (UK magazine). July 2010. Asked about how consumer technology and social networking

bring drawbacks as well as benefits, and how the savvy consumer can minimise the former and

maximise the latter.

101. Mehr News Agency. (Iranian). July 2010. Interviewed about philosophical theory and practice: eastern vs.

western philosophers.

102. James Shaughnessy and IDDQD Productions. (documentary). June 2010. Interviewed for a documentary

about ‘crucial considerations,’ the singularity, and the possible consequence of digital uploading.

103. Dominque Lestel and Laboratoire d’Eco-anthropologie & Ethnobiologie. June 2010. Interviewed about

transhumanism and transanimalism for research grant work on post humanism and post animal

conditions.

104. Oxford Student Newspaper. June 2010. Asked about the merits of funding for manned space exploration.

105. Barry Gibb and The Wellcome Trust (documentary). June 2010. Interviewed about the future impacts of

ageing research and themes of ageing and longevity.

106. Eco-ethology & Cognitive Ethology Research Group at the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. June

2010. Interviewed by Dominique Lestel for research grant on post humanism , transhumanism and

post animal research.

107. I, Science Magazine (Imperial College, London). June 2010. Interviewed about ethical concerns for

implantable technology and human enhancement.

108. ITV Sci-Fi/Science (UK television). June 2010. Interviewed for “Physics of the Impossible Series 2”.

109. Mehr News Agency. (Iranian). June 2010. Interviewed about the ethics of education.

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110. Mehr News Agency. (Iranian). June 2010. Interviewed about metaphilosophy and how twentieth century

philosophy compares to the philosophical achievements of earlier centuries.

111. The Forum (BBC World Service programme). June 2010. Interviewed why finding life on Mars could be

very bad news for mankind. www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1246_the_forum/page39.shtml

112. Mladina Weekly (Slovenian magazine). June 2010. Interviewed on ageing, pension reform and life

expectancy issues.

113. The Times Online Magazine. May 2010. Interviewed about nuclear terrorism and the accuracy of expert

assessment.

114. Newton Magazine (Italian science magazine). May 2010. Interviewed about anti-aging medicine, human

enhancement, and uploading.

115. Filosofia (Brazilian magazine). May 2010. Interviewed about transhumanism.

www.estropico.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180:una-storia-del-pensiero-

transumanista-di-nick-bostrom&catid=42:estropia--transumanesimo&Itemid=81

116. Philosophy Now (bimonthly magazine). May 2010. Asked about the ethics of enhancement.

117. Mehr News Agency. (Iranian). May 2010. Interviewed about the relationship between ethics/politics in

the public and private spheres. www.mehrnews.com/en/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1089965, reprinted

in The Tehran Times (daily newspaper): www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=220436

118. FreedomLab Future Studies EU Thinktank (Amsterdam).May 2010. Interviewed about the impact of

technology on society (and vice-versa).

119. de Volkskrant Newspaper (Amsterdam). May 2010. Interviewed about human enhancement.

120. Utbildningsradion (UR) / Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company. (television series promo). May 2010.

Interviewed about existential risks.

121. Luke Mason Documentary: Compassion, Our Greatest Flaw? An Exploration into What It Means to Be Human

in the Post-Modern Age. May 2010. Interviewed about the evolution of humanity and human

consciousness.

122. Cherwell School Newspaper (UK student publication). April 2010. Interviewed about the dangers of being

dependent upon technology in the context of volcanic disruptions.

123. BBC Science / BBC4. (UK television). April 2010. Interviewed about astrobiology and the search for extra

terrestrial life (to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Drake Equation and the inception of SETI).

124. Astronomy Now (magazine). March 2010. Interviewed for 50th anniversary of SETI about transhumanism

and the existential risks of sending signals into space. www.astronomynow.com/news/n1005/04seti6b/

125. Time Magazine. (American). April 2010. Interviewed about cognition, enhancement and brain exercises.

www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1983306,00.html

126. Jyllands-Posten (Danish newspaper). March 2010. Interviewed on singularity and artificial intelligence.

127. The Smart Manager (Indian magazine). March 2010. Asked about the link between Executive Education,

business management and the wider University and on how future scenarios work can impact Indian

growth and development.

128. Intelligence in Lifestyle, IL Sole 24 Ore (Italian monthly magazine). February 2010. Interviewed about

research on human enhancement and global catastrophic risks.

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129. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. February 2010. Interviewed about global catastrophic risks , such as

those from nuclear and biological weapons.

130. Business Voice (The CBI magazine). February 2010. Interviewed about the future of human enhancement

technologies, especially the social and business impacts of biomedical enhancements.

131. BBC Science “Future Human“ (UK television series). February 2010. Interviewed about how evolution and

scientific advancement will direct the future of the human race.

132. World Affairs Monthly. January 2010. Interviewed about the future of the world.

133. 103.2 Dublin City FM (Irish radio). January 2010. Interviewed about human enhancement.

134. 2010 Edge Question. January 2010. Contributed “More Still To Come.”. Distributed by John Brockman,

the answers for 2010 addressed the question, “How is the Internet changing the way you think?”

http://edge.org/response-detail/24/how-is-the-internet-changing-the-way-you-think

135. “August Podcast”: TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine. (podcast) 2009. Interviewed about a possible future

without death and disease. www.philosophymonthly.com/?p=54

136. Mehr News Agency. (Iranian). 2009. Interviewed about the relation between ethics and politics

137. i (Portuguese newspaper). 2009. Interviewed about human enhancement, artificial intelligence, and

existential risks.

138. Bloomberg News (American television). 2009. Interviewed about the year that was and prospects for the

coming year and decade, within the areas of geopolitics and terrorism, new media and the Internet,

and the environment.

139. Thought Economics. (blog). 2009. Interviewed about the singularity, machine intelligence, the future of

human evolution, and existential risks.

140. Discovery Channel (Canadian television documentary). 2009. Interviewed about philosophical issues related

to virtual reality and time travel and the simulation argument.

141. National Geographic.com. 2009. Interviewed about future human evolution.

142. OWL Magazine (Oxford). 2009. Interviewed about various topics, mainly related to human

enhancement.

143. Easy Living (UK magazine). 2009. Interview about human enhancement, existential risks, and related

topics.

144. New Scientist Magazine. 2009. Interviewed for an article based on my paper on information hazards.

145. ABC (Australian Radio, Gold Field). 2009. Interviewed about human enhancement and global

catastrophic risks.

146. Radio Slovenija. 2009. Interviewed about the future of human evolution.

147. H+ Magazine. (Humanity + publication.) 2009. Interviewed about potential risks from NBIC technologies

and about the ethics of enhancing or “uplifting” animals.

148. Marie Claire Magazine (Italian edition). 2009. Interviewed about human enhancements.

149. ABC Radio (Australia, Kimberly). 2009. Interviewed about human enhancement and related issues.

150. Wired Magazine (Italian edition). 2009. Short commentary on my contribution to the What’s Next book

edited by Max Brockman.

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151. Bayerischer Rundfunk (German radio). 2009. Interviewed about risk perception, risk thinking, everyday

risks and existential risks.

152. Time Magazine (American website). 2009. Interviewed about human enhancement and existential risks.

153. ABC (Australian national radio). 2009. Interviewed about the singularity.

154. The Sunday Age (Australian newspaper). 2009. Interviewed about pathologizing of human frailty and the

quest for human perfection.

155. BBC Focus Magazine. (UK). 2009. Interviewed about how people would react if they knew a natural

catastrophe were about to destroy civilization, and how long it might take for civilization to recover.

156. Oxford University Alumni Magazine. (UK). 2009. Interviewed about human enhancement ethics and

other FHI work areas.

157. Silicon.com. (business news website). 2009. Interviewed about the present and the future of artificial

intelligence.

158. Superinteressante. (Portuguese magazine.) 2009. Interviewed about the meaning and implications of

increasing longevity.

159. Search Magazine. 2009. Interviewed about observation selection effects and cosmological multiverse

theories.

160. Daytime (BBC Radio Oxford). 2009. Interviewed about lifestyle drugs and diet pills.

161. The Today Program (UK Radio 4). 2009. Interviewed about lifestyle drugs and diet pills.

162. History Channel (American television documentary). 2009. Interviewed about the idea of a technological

singularity and about threats to human survival.

163. O Estado de São Paulo (Brazilian newspaper). 2009. Interviewed about the past, present, and future of the

Internet and its consequences for the human condition.

164. Swedish Radio. 2009. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

165. The Independent (UK newspaper). 2009. Interviewed about enhancement in swimming sports.

166. BBC (training video for internal personnel). 2009. Interviewed about transhumanism, human enhancement

ethics, the future, and global catastrophic risks.

167. TIME (American magazine). 2009. Interviewed about changing attitudes to childhood, aging, and death.

168. Philosophie Magazine. (French). 2009. Interviewed about life extension and its potential social

consequences.

169. Wired UK. 2009. Interviewed about malfunctioning consumer gadgets and perceptions about Murphy’s

law.

170. MSN (American online news gateway). 2009. Interviewed about human evolution and other modes of

change of the human condition.

171. Weekenavisen (Danish weekly magazine). 2009. Interviewed about the future of human evolution.

172. Mladina. (Slovenian magazine.) 2009. Interviewed about existential risks, the simulation argument,

human enhancement, and the future of human evolution.

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173. Zeit Wissen. (published by the German newspaper, Die Zeit). 2009. Interviewed about global catastrophic

risks.

174. BBC News (UK website). 2009. Asked to comment on research on the neurobiology of love.

175. 2009 Edge Question. 2009. Contributed “Superintelligence.”. Distributed by John Brockman, the answers

for 2009 addressed the question, “What will change everything?” http://edge.org/response-

detail/863/what-will-change-everything

176. GQ (UK men’s magazine). 2008. Interviewed about evolution, technology, and the possibility of some

future posthuman condition.

177. Zest (UK magazine). 2008. Interviewed about cognitive enhancement and associated ethical issues.

178. Drive Time (BBC Radio Oxford, UK). 2008. Interviewed about the future of robotics.

179. Bedeutung (UK philosophy magazine). 2008. Interviewed about transhumanism.

180. David Fanning Show (RTE Irish Radio). 2008. Discussion of present state of and potential future

developments in artificial intelligence research.

181. Time (American magazine). 2008. Interviewed about existential risks and other FHI research areas.

182. lrytas.lt (Lithuanian internet newspaper). 2008. Interviewed about transhumanism.

183. Wired UK. 2008. Interviewed about future technological developments.

184. Sole24ore (Italian newspaper). 2008. Interviewed about transhumanism and the study of the future of

humanity and about human enhancement.

185. Seed/Science Is Culture (American/Canadian magazine). 2008. Interviewed as one among a set of

“visionaries” about anticipated scientific developments over the next year.

186. BBC Radio. (UK). 2008. Interviewed about my work on various big picture questions for humanity and

about transhumanism.

187. Kultur Zeit (television program broadcast in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). 2008. Interviewed and

filmed for program focusing on the FHI and my work on global catastrophic risks.

188. BBC Radio Oxford (UK). 2008. Interviewed about an advance in cloning technology and its potential use

to bring back extinct species.

189. Gafencu Magazine (men’s magazine, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai). 2008. Interviewed about

cyberspace, virtual reality, and becoming digital.

190. MSNBC.com. (American website). 2008. Interviewed about global catastrophic risks.

191. Sky Channel 200 (Edge Media television news). 2008. Interviewed in a program devoted to my simulation

argument.

192. Independent television documentary project. 2008. Background interview for proposed television series on

global catastrophic risks.

193. London student documentary. 2008. Interviewed about cognitive enhancement.

194. Danish TV documentary. 2008. Interviewed about transhumanism, existential risks, and human

enhancement.

195. The Independent (UK newspaper). 2008. Interviewed for a section on visionaries.

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196. Epoca (premier Brazilian news weekly). 2008. Interviewed about global catastrophic risks, existential risks,

the great filter, the singularity, transhumanism, and human enhancement ethics.

197. Utne Reader. (American bimonthly magazine). 2008. Interviewed about my work and the Future of

Humanity Institute upon being named one of the “50 visionaries who are changing the world” featured

in the 150-year anniversary issue of the magazine.

198. The Future and You (podcast). 2008. Interviewed about transhumanism, existential risks, the simulation

argument, and the singularity.

199. Bon Magazine. (Swedish magazine). 2008. Interviewed about the science and ethics of life extension.

200. The Scottsman (UK newspaper). 2008. Interviewed about global catastrophic risks.

201. Computer Shopper. 2008. Interviewed about human enhancement and existential risks.

202. Men’s Journal. (American magazine.) 2008. Interviewed in relation to some of my papers on cognitive

enhancers.

203. New Scientist Magazine. 2008. Interviewed about the conference on global catastrophic risks organized

by the FHI.

204. BBC Radio Oxford. 2008. Interviewed about the conference on global catastrophic risks organized by the

FHI.

205. FoxFM (Oxfordshire, UK radio station). 2008. Interviewed about the conference on global catastrophic

risks organized by the FHI in Oxford.

206. Apocalypse How (Discovery Channel documentary, Canadian). 2008. Interviewed about my views on

existential risks facing humanity.

207. The Moral Maze (BBC Radio 4, UK). 2008. Participating as expert witness on the issue of performance

enhancing drugs in sport and of human enhancement ethics more generally.

208. Discovery Channel (Canadian television). 2008. Interviewed about the future of machine intelligence, and

about the existential risks associated with superintelligence.

209. Venerdì di Repubblica. (weekly Italian newspaper). 2008. Interviewed about the singularity hypothesis and

the future of artificial intelligence.

210. New Scientist Magazine. 2008. Interviewed about current issues in bioethics.

211. CNN.com. (American news agency website). 2008. Interviewed about human enhancement ethics, the

singularity, and existential risks.

212. US News & World Report. (American magazine). 2008. Interviewed about human evolution, gene therapy,

and human enhancement.

213. Kerrang Radio. (UK). 2008. Interviewed about population growth and population ethics.

214. The Forum (BBC Radio, UK). 2008. Discussion program; talking about my Technology Review paper on

the search for extraterrestrial life, and on the case for funding research into cognitive enhancing drugs.

215. Cosmos (popular Australian science magazine). 2008. Interviewed for about threats to civilization.

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/2438/full

216. Earth and Sky (syndicated radio show). 2008. Interviewed about the science of global catastrophic risks,

and about transhumanism.

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217. BBC Focus Magazine. (UK). 2008. Interview about human evolution and its possible future directions.

218. Science Fantastic (nationally syndicated American radio show). 2008. Interviewed about transhumanism,

human enhancement, and life extension.

219. Les Echos (French monthly newsmagazine). 2008. Featured in-depth interview about transhumanism,

human enhancement, genetic selection, and the evolution heuristic.

220. WBUR (American radio station, Boston). 2008. Interviewed about my article in MIT Technology Review

on the Fermi paradox and the Great Filter argument.

221. BBC Online. (UK news). 2008. Interviewed about how humans have extended life span in the past, and

about the future prospects of medical science in creating further extensions of the healthy human life

span.

222. Bloomberg News. (American news agency). 2008. Commenting on the significance of a new study

showing potential health dangers from exposure to carbon nanotubes.

223. Engineering and Technology Magazine (Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK). 2008.

Interviewed about aging, transhumanism, and cognitive enhancement.

224. The Independent (UK newspaper). 2008. Interviewed about cognitive enhancement research and the

regulatory framework for pharmaceutical products.

225. Seed/Science Is Culture (American/Canadian magazine). 2008. Interviewed about cognitive enhancement.

226. Gafencu Magazine (men’s magazine, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai). 2008. Interviewed about human

enhancement and about how new technological practises might change our self-conception at human

beings.

227. Discover (science magazine). 2008. Interviewed about cognition enhancing drugs, their role within the

medical system, and the transhumanist perspective

228. Upcoming book about life-extension. 2008. Interviewed about the ethics of life extension, and about the

future of artificial intelligence, and about various related ethical issues

229. Über-Menschlichkeiten (German book, eds. Jan-Christoph Heilinger / Markus Christen). 2008. Interviewed

about the ethics and social consequences of life extension.

230. The Observer (UK newspaper). 2008. Interviewed about cognition enhancing drugs, their current use and

future impact, and associated normative questions.

231. Agence-France Presse. (French news agency, the oldest one in the world, and one of the three largest with

Associated Press and Reuters). 2008. Interviewed about ethical issues in the prospect of intimate relations

between humans and robots.

232. Short independent video documentary. 2008. Interviewed about the larger significance of the Large Hadron

Collider and the quest for the basic laws of physics.

233. Podium (featured segment in the journal Nature’s podcast). 2008. Presenting my essay “Three Ways to

Advance Science”

234. Quo (Mexican magazine). 2008. Interviewed about global catastrophic risks and population growth

projections.

235. The Daily Star (UK newspaper). 2008. Interviewed about the future of artificial intelligence.

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236. The Guardian (UK newspaper). 2008. Interviewed about ethical issues in robotics and artificial

intelligence.

237. Associated Press (global news agency). 2008. Interviewed about the exclusion of Oscar Pistorius from the

Olympics, and about the wider social significance of performance enhancement.

238. 2008 Edge Question. 2008. Contributed “Everything”. Distributed by John Brockman, the answers for

2008 addressed the question, “What have you changed your mind about?” http://edge.org/response-

detail/2288/what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about-why

239. Cronopis (Spanish literary magazine). 2007. Interviewed about transhumanist philosophy and my views

on various future-related issues, as well as the origins of the WTA.

240. Washington Post. (American newspaper). 2007. Interviewed about the potential consequences of

pharmaceutical methods of reducing fear.

241. Newton magazine (Italian science magazine). 2007. Interviewed about transhumanism and the future.

242. Mladina (Slovenian weekly magazine). 2007. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

243. BBC Radio 4. (UK). 2007. Interviewed about BMA report on cognitive enhancement.

244. BBC World Service (UK radio). 2007. Interviewed about cognitive enhancement techniques and related

ethical and regulatory issues.

245. Red Group Audio Business Program. 2007. Interviewed about technological developments and future

possibilities as relates to the concerns of business managers.

246. Television documentary (Swedish National Television, for international distribution). 2007. Interviewed about

the future of human evolution, human enhancement, and existential risks.

247. Independent film documentary. 2007. Interviewed about the singularity hypothesis and about the

simulation argument.

248. Popular Science (magazine). 2007. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

249. The Today Programme (UK Radio 4). 2007. Interviewed about the future of computing and implications

for society.

250. The SciPhi Show (webcast radio). 2007. Interviewed about transhumanist philosophy and global

catastrophic risks, and about my academic work more generally.

251. ZNET (web radio). 2007. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

252. KLPZ Radio (American). 2007. Interviewed about the simulation argument mainly, but also about

transhumanism, global catastrophic risk, the singularity, nanotechnology, and uploadin.

253. SETI Radio. 2007. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

254. BBC News (UK website). 2007. Interviewed about the ethics of connecting to the internet via somebody

else’s wireless account.

255. Clarin (Argentina’s largest newspaper). 2007. Interviewed about my various research interests, including

the implications of future technologies, human enhancement, and global catastrophic risks.

256. NewsTalk Radio (Ireland). 2007. Interviewed for segment about my simulation argument.

257. Bryant Park (American national public radio). 2007. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

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258. The Believer. 2007. Interviewed about my biography and intellectual background.

259. New York Times. (American newspaper). 2007. Interviewed for article about my simulation argument.

260. Washington Post. (American newspaper). 2007. Interviewed about performance enhancement in sport.

261. TV documentary. 2007. Interviewed about life extension and biogerontology.

262. The Sunday Times. (UK newspaper). 2007. Interviewed about cognitive enhancing drugs, particularly

Modafinil, and its use by some academics.

263. Ci’num (Digital Civilizations Forum). 2007. Interviewed about existential risks, human enhancement,

public engagement with emerging technologies, and utopian visions.

264. BBC Radio 2. (UK). 2007. Interviewed about the future of the Internet and it impacts, for the series Why

Didn’t I Think of That?

265. GQ (UK men’s magazine). 2007. Long feature article on me and my work and the FHI.

266. Times Higher Educational Supplement. (American newspaper). 2007. Interviewed about cognitive

enhancement medicine, including practical and ethical issues, and implications for policy.

267. Le Devoir. (French-language newspaper published in Montreal, Canada). 2007. Interviewed about Gunther

von Hagens’ Body Worlds exhibition.

268. BBC Television. (UK). 2007. Interviewed for two documentaries about biotechnology and

nanotechnology, about expected developments in these fields and what they might mean for the future

of humanity.

269. Seed/Science Is Culture (American/Canadian magazine). 2007. Interviewed about robot ethics.

270. Toronto and Ottawa Suns (Canadian newspapers). 2007. Asked about the future of surveillance technology.

271. The Independent (UK newspaper). 2007. Interviewed about efforts by industry to develop ethics codes for

robots.

272. L’Hebdo (Swiss newsmagazine). 2007. Interviewed about cyborg technologies such as implants versus

other ways of enhancing human performance.

273. Associated Press. (global news agency). 2007. Interviewed about transhumanism, future technologies, and

Fukuyama’s critique.

274. Financial Times. 2007. Interviewed about “where philosophy is going today”.

275. BBC World Service (UK radio). 2007. Commenting on three topics: the “doomsday vault” (seed bank) in

Svalbard, Microsoft’s “immortal computing” project, and plans to send out messages aimed for

extraterrestrial civilizations.

276. PC Plus magazine. 2007. Interviewed about pervasive computing.

277. Chemistry World (magazine). 2007. Interviewed about the ethics of life extension research in conjunction

with a forthcoming paper in the journal Rejuvenation Research.

278. Utildnings Radion (Swedish educational radio). 2007. Interviewed about the future of human evolution, the

impacts of transformative technologies, and transhumanist ethics.

279. Closer to Truth (American public television / PBS series). 2007. Four-hour interview covering topics for

many aspects of my work, with material to be included in at least five programs: the simulation

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argument, anthropic reasoning, the future of intelligent life, multiverse theories, the Doomsday

argument, etc.

280. Drivetime with Dave Fanning on RTE Radio One (Irish radio). 2007. Interviewed about human

enhancement and nanotechnology.

281. Urbania (Montreal-based magazine). 2007. Short interview about what the priorities should be on the

environmental agenda.

282. The Boston Globe. (American newspaper). 2007. Interviewed about existential risks, and about the

invocation of the term “existential threat” in relation the war on terror.

283. San Diego Union-Tribune. (American newspaper). 2007. Interviewed about human evolution and its

possible future directions.

284. The Sunday Herald (Scottish newspaper). 2007. Interviewed about life-extension and transhumanism.

285. Drivetime With Dave Fanning on RTE Radio One (Irish radio). 2007. Interviewed about the simulation

argument.

286. Odd at Large (Swedish Magazine). 2007. Interviewed about the activities of the Oxford Future of

Humanity Institute, global catastrophic risks, and the simulation argument.

287. BBC Focus Magazine. (UK). 2007. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

288. Fast Thinking (Australian magazine). 2007. Interviewed about DNA technology and about the possibility

of eradicating aging and disease.

289. The Today Programme (BBC Radio 4, UK). 2007. Interviewed about the role of instincts and moral

intuitions in bioethics and discussions about human enhancement.

290. The Meaning of the 21st Century (American public television). 2006. Interviewed by James Martin on

transhumanism, human extinction scenarios, and future technologies.

291. McCalmont’s Web Forum. 2006. Interviewed about my background and miscellaneous topics.

292. The Today Programme (BBC Radio 4, UK). 2006. Interviewed about gene doping and performance

enhancement in sport.

293. Discovery Channel (Canadian television). 2006. Interviewed about cyborg technology, uploading, and the

future of humanity.

294. PIMM (book blog). 2006. Interviewed about life extension.

295. BBC Focus Magazine. (UK). 2006. Interviewed about cosmological problems and the simulation

argument.

296. Personal Computer World. 2006. Interviewed about transformative future technologies.

297. Mongrel Magazine (Irish). 2006. Interviewed about transhumanism.

298. Cryonics Magazine. (American magazine published by ALCOR). 2006. Interviewed about ethical issues

related to the practise of cryonic suspension.

299. BBC Radio 3. (UK). 2006. Hour-long debate about the future of human enhancement and robotics, part

of the BBC Festival of Ideas in Liverpool.

300. The Times. (UK newspaper). 2006. Interviewed about human enhancement and associated ethical issues.

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301. Independent documentary film. 2006. Interviewed about future energy sources.

302. Nature (science magazine). 2006. Interviewed about the conference TransVision 2006 and my

presentations therein.

303. Italian National Television. 2006. Interviewed about the future and about philosophical questions related

to artificial intelligence and human enhancement.

304. New Scientist Magazine. 2006. Interviewed about my work on the evolution heuristic.

305. BBC Radio Five. (UK). 2006. Interviewed about performance enhancement in sport.

306. Monthly Vision (Italian magazine). 2006. Interviewed about artificial intelligence and where it will go in

the future.

307. Maxim (UK men’s magazine). 2006. Interviewed about future technologies and body modification.

308. CNN Future Summit (American news agency). 2006. Interviewed about the present state of artificial

intelligence and its future prospects

309. National Journal. (American weekly magazine). 2006. Interviewed about the future of intelligent machines,

the possibility of a technological singularity, and the implications for governance and public policy.

310. The Times (UK newspaper). 2006. Interviewed about life-extension research and the desirability of longer

life.

311. The Times (UK newspaper). 2006. Interviewed about memory and how new technology may change the

demands on human memory.

312. Wellcome Trust science museum. 2006. Background interview about cognitive enhancers.

313. Technocalypse (film documentary). 2006. Interviewed about status quo bias, human rationality, and

human enhancement.

314. The Sunday Times. (UK newspaper). 2006. Interviewed about the impacts of growing up with digital

technology on brain development and psychology.

315. Human Values in a Transhuman World (radio documentary). 2006. Interviewed about ethics, human

enhancement, and new technologies.

316. Meme Therapy (blog). 2006. Interviewed about transhumanism and related issues.

317. The Next Paradigm (television documentary). 2006. Interviewed about the singularity and the future of

artificial intelligence.

318. TV documentary. 2006. Interviewed about transhumanism and related issues.

319. French Feature Film. 2006. Interviewed about aging and life-extension.

320. Autopilots (television documentary). 2006. Interviewed about the future of robotics and artificial

intelligence.

321. Bon Magazine (Swedish). 2006. Interviewed about memory enhancing and memory deleting drugs and

their social and ethical ramifications.

322. Isis Magazine. (Oxford student publication). 2006. Interviewed about what kinds of technological change

students alive today can expect to experience in their lifetime.

323. Eureka (French magazine). 2006. Interviewed about human nature.

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324. Muy interesante (popular science magazine for Central America). 2006. Main feature (15-20 pages) on my

work on existential risks.

325. The Observer (UK newspaper). 2006. Interviewed about my RSA lecture and the prospects of human

enhancement technologies.

326. Galileu (Brazilian science magazine). 2006. Interviewed about the science of life extension.

327. The Guardian (UK newspaper). 2006. Feature interview about the work of the Oxford Future of Humanity

Institute, and about transhumanism.

328. CNN Future Summit. (American news agency). 2006. Interviewed about a variety of future-related topics.

329. The Meaning of the 21st Century (television documentary). 2006. Reading my “Letter from Utopia”

330. Philosophy Now. 2006. Interviewed about David Pearce’s work.

331. CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television). 2006. Interviewed about the future of aging.

332. Science & Avenir (French science magazine). 2006. Interviewed about the Future of Humanity Institute and

transhumanism.

333. London Update.2006. Interviewed about transhumanism.

334. ABC News (American documentary). 2006. Interviewed about global catastrophic risks and threats to

human survival.

335. The Future (Dutch National Television). 2006. Followed for one day and interviewed about my work and

about transhumanism.

336. BBC World Service. (UK radio). 2006. Interviewed about aging and life-extension.

337. The Today Program (Channel 4, UK Radio). 2006. Interviewed about human enhancement.

338. Good Morning Scotland (BBC Radio, UK). 2006. Interviewed about life-extension.

339. Radio Oxford. (UK). 2006. Interviewed about the ethics and science of life-extension.

340. Catastrophe (UK magazine). 2006. Interviewed about the Future of Humanity Institute and its

interdisciplinary work.

341. Volkskraut (Dutch newspaper). 2006. Interviewed at length about my work, and about human

enhancement technologies.

342. Discover (science magazine). 2006. Interviewed in relation to Nature publication on the cosmic disaster

frequency.

343. The Sunday Times. (UK newspaper). 2005. Interviewed about the ENHANCE project.

344. Die Welt. (German newspaper). 2005. Interviewed in relation to Nature publication on the cosmic disaster

frequency.

345. USA Today. (American newspaper). 2005. Interviewed in relation to Nature publication on the cosmic

disaster frequency.

346. New Scientist Magazine. 2005. Interviewed in relation to Nature publication on the cosmic disaster

frequency.

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347. Philosopher’s Magazine. 2005. Asked about the Future of Humanity Institute.

348. Gestión. 2005. Profiled in an article on thinkers “whose ideas are having or will have a large impact in

the business landscape”

349. Science and Spirit. 2005. Interviewed about the anthropic principle and cosmology

350. Science and Theology News. 2005. Interviewed about the anthropic principle and Leon Susskind

351. La Revue mensuelle. 2005. Interviewed about myself and about transhumanism.

352. TV Documentary. 2005. Interviewed about artificial intelligence and its future prospects.

353. Chemical & Engineering News. 2005. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

354. NanoAging. 2005. Interviewed about life-extension and related matters.

355. The Boston Globe. (American newspaper). 2005. Interviewed about the future of artificial intelligence.

356. Gehirn & Geist. (German edition of Scientific American Mind). 2005. Interviewed about cognitive

enhancers.

357. National Journal. 2005. Interviewed about global catastrophic risk.

358. Discovery Channel (Canadian television). 2005. Interviewed about the simulation argument and about

whether there is extraterrestrial life.

359. Independent film company. 2005. Interviewed for trailer, on the possibilities of the 21st century.

360. Men’s Health (Russian). 2005. Interviewed about future possibilities.

361. Independent filmmaker. 2005. Interviewed for documentary on transhumanism.

362. Conference video for Transvision05. 2005. Interviewed about transhumanism and bioethics.

363. Tecnohumano fundacion video. 2005. Interviewed about transhumanism and the developing world.

364. Conference video for Transvision05. 2005. Interviewed about transhumanism in general.

365. Radio lab WNYC. (American radio). 2005. Interviewed about transhumanist philosophy.

366. The Guardian. (UK newspaper). 2005. Interviewed about future prospects for humanity.

367. Channel 4. 2005. Consulted for planned documentary on future humans.

368. Hartford Courant. (American newspaper). 2005. Interviewed about transhumanism.

369. Mail of Sunday. 2005. Interviewed about artificial intelligence and the CYC project.

370. Spanish Transhumanist Gazzett.2005. Interviewed about transhumanism.

371. BBC News (UK television). 2005. Interviewed about cosmetic neurology.

372. Swedish Radio. 2005. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

373. The Daily Telegraph. (UK newspaper). 2005. Interviewed about the launch of the Oxford Centre for the

Science of the Mind.

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374. Press Conference. 2005. Interviewed for UK newspapers in London, about the launch of the Oxford

Centre for the Science of the Mind.

375. Discover (science magazine). 2005. Interviewed about observation selection effects and traffic analysis.

376. Philosophy: The State of the Art (popular book on living philosopher). 2005. Interviewed about my work

for, by the author, Nicholas Fern.

377. What We Still Don’t Know (American television documentary, Channel 4 and PBS). 2005. Interviewed about

the simulation arguments and artificial intelligence.

378. Discover (science magazine). 2005. Interviewed about traffic analysis and observation selection theory.

379. Revue Vivant. 2004. Interviewed about transhumanism.

380. Atlantic Books. 2004. Interviewed by Nicholas Fearn for “Philosophy: The State of the Art”.

381. Der Spiegel. (English language int’l edition of German news source). 2004. Interviewed about the simulation

argument.

382. The Sunday Times. (UK newspaper). 2004. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

383. This Magazine (Canadian). 2004. Interviewed about transhumanism.

384. The Oxford Student. (newspaper). 2005. Interviewed about neuropharmacology and the ethics of

cognitive enhancers.

385. The Financial Times Magazine. 2004. Interviewed about transhumanism.

386. The Times (UK newspaper). 2004. Interviewed about cognitive enhancements and cosmetic neurology.

387. Equal Time for Freethought (American radio station). 2004. Interviewed about the future of the human

condition.

388. CBC (Canadian TV documentary). 2004. Interviewed about transhumanism and the Transvision04

conference.

389. Le Devoir (Canadian newspaper). 2004. Interviewed about transhumanism.

390. Now (UK celebrity magazine). 2004. Interviewed about transhumanism.

391. Legal Affairs Magazine. 2004. Interviewed about ethical and legal rights for machines.

392. GQ (UK men’s magazine). 2004. Interviewed about future human modification technologies.

393. The New York Times (American weekly Magazine). 2004. Interviewed about global catastrophic risk.

394. The Matrix: Philosophy (DVD documentary). 2004. Interviewed about transhumanism, ethics, and future

technologies.

395. Belgian National Television. 2004. Guest on discussion program about human enhancement.

396. HUMO (Belgian magazine). 2004. Interviewed about the ethics of human enhancement technologies

397. Nanotechnology Now (magazine). 2004. Interviewed about strategic security issues in nanotechnology,

and about transhumanism.

398. LA Times (American newspaper, Los Angeles). 2004. Interviewed about the alertness-enhancing drug

Modafinil.

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399. Morning Call (American newspaper, Allentown, PA). 2004. Interviewed about long-term threats to human

survival.

400. Times Weekend Review (UK newspaper). 2004. Philosophy trivia.

401. Sunday Times (UK newspaper). 2004. Interviewed about cryonics.

402. Vancouver Courier (Canadian newspaper). 2003. Interviewed about Christmas.

403. SVT (Swedish national television). 2003. Interviewed about the future and the simulation argument.

404. BBC Horizon (flagship science programme on BBC Two, UK). 2003. Interviewed about my simulation

argument.

405. Yale Medicine Magazine. (American). 2003. Interviewed about enhancement medicine.

406. United Press International. 2003. Interviewed about Mr. Schwarzenegger’s candidacy and the ethics of

human enhancement technologies.

407. Seed/Science Is Culture (American/Canadian magazine). 2003. Interviewed about my role in the

transhumanism movement.

408. La Voz Asturias (Spanish newspaper) 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

409. BBC Radio. (UK). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

410. BBC Radio. (UK). 2003. Interviewed about transhumanism.

411. PBS TV Documentary. (American public broadcasting). 2003. Interviewed by Dina Guttmann for

forthcoming documentary on transhumanism.

412. Joel Garreau. 2003. Interviewed about myself and transhumanism for his forthcoming book.

413. Los Angeles Times. (American newspaper). 2003. Interviewed about technology, ethics, biopolitics, and

transhumanism.

414. Documentary (University of Westminster, London). 2003. Interviewed about the ethics of human genetic

engineering.

415. Radio Chicago WKQX. (American). 2003. Interviewed about the film, “ The Matrix”.

416. Eesti Ekspress (Estonian weekly magazine). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

417. Folkradion (Swedish national radio). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

418. Zara, Troy, and Bernie in the morning (Radio, Western Australia). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation

argument

419. P1 (Swedish national radio). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

420. Radio Perth. (Australian). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

421. Radio Atlanta. (American). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

422. SAFM Radio (South Africa). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

423. CHQR Radio (Alberta, Canada). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

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424. CFRB Radio, The John Oakley Show (Canada). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

425. Red FM (Cork, UK). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument and the future.

426. Radio WLLW The WALL 99.3. (American radio.) 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

427. Radio Dublin. 2003. Special Guest, interviewed about “The Matrix” and the simulation argument.

428. Wireless Flash News Service (American). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

429. Super Interessante (Brazilian science and technology magazine). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation

argument.

430. BBC Radio Four. (UK). 2003. Interviewed about observation selection effects in traffic analysis.

431. The Daily Mail (UK newspaper). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

432. The New Yorker. (American weekly magazine). 2003. Interviewed about philosophical issues in multiverse

cosmology.

433. The Big Issue (UK charity magazine). 2003. Interviewed about the transhumanist movement.

434. Empire (movie magazine). 2003. Interviewed about the simulation argument and “The Matrix” film.

435. Sesame (Open University newsletter). 2003. Featured about a lecture on observation selection effects.

436. WHPK Radio, University of Chicago (American). 2003. Interviewed about human cloning.

437. Washington Post. (American newspaper). 2002. Interviewed by Linton Weeks on the past and future

development of life.

438. Fox News (American television). 2002. Interviewed live on stem cells research and human cloning.

439. Southern News Chain (Canadian newspaper network). 2002. Interviewed about reproductive cloning and

the future of genetics.

440. News Talk Dublin (Irish Radio). 2002. Interviewed about human cloning.

441. Maariv (Israeli daily newspaper). 2002. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

442. The Salon (UK magazine). 2002. Interviewed about existential risks and threats to human survival.

443. Hartford Courant (American newspaper). 2002. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

444. Orlando Sentinel (American newspaper). 2002. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

445. Red FM (Irish radio station). 2002. Interviewed about transhumanism.

446. World Weekly News (American tabloid). 2002. Article on the simulation argument.

447. The Great Unknown (American radio show). 2002. Interviewed as two-hour special guest, about my views

on the future of humankind.

448. To the Best of Our Knowledge (syndicated American radio show). 2002. Interviewed about the simulation

argument.

449. New Scientist Magazine. 2002. Feature article about my simulation argument.

450. The Daily Telegraph (UK newspaper). 2002. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

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451. Jeff Rense (American coast-to-coast radio). 2002. Interviewed on two-hour show about transhumanism.

452. Todd Mundt Show (American radio). 2002. Interviewed about the simulation argument and the film “The

Matrix.”

453. Art Bell (radio show). 2002. Interviewed as three-hour special guest about transhumanism and the

future.

454. Sensoria (online magazine). 2002. Interviewed about transhumanism.

455. BBC Radio Asia. 2002. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

456. KIJK (Dutch magazine). 2002. Interviewed about the simulation argument for a youth readership.

457. CBS Radio. (American). 2002. Interviewed about the simulation argument.

458. BBC Radio. (UK). 2002. Interviewed about the idea that we might be living in a computer simulation.

459. Metro London (UK newspaper). 2002. Interviewed about my paper on the simulation argument.

460. BBC Three Counties Radio. (UK). 2002. Interviewed about my simulation argument.

461. Waterbury Republican-American. 2002. Interviewed about cryonics.

462. The New Yorker. (weekly American magazine). 2002. Interviewed about traffic analysis and observation

selection effects.

463. Life Positive Plus (Indian Magazine). 2002. Interview about technology, evolution, and the future of

humanity.

464. Washington Post. (American newspaper). 2002. Interviewed by Rick Weiss on issues relating to human

cloning.

465. TV2 RTM (Malaysian national television). 2002. Interviewed about reproductive vs. therapeutic cloning.

466. Changesurfer Radio. 2002. Interviewed about my book Anthropic Bias, and about the World

Transhumanist Association.

467. Nanotechnology Now. 2001. Interviewed about nanotechnology and technological progress.

468. Real Life (American television program on TV8). 2001. Debated and fielded callers’ questions about

therapeutic cloning and stem cells research.

469. The New Journal. 2001. Interviewed about my efforts to introduce a course on the future of humanity

into the curriculum.

470. Nanomagazine.com. 2001.Interviewed about artificial intelligence.

471. WebMD Medical News. 2001. Interviewed about artificial intelligence.

472. Scholastic Scopes Magazine. 2001. Interviewed on cloning.

473. RNN-TV (American television news network). 2001. Interviewed live about cloning.

474. BBC Radio Wales. 2001. Interviewed about human cloning.

475. 610-WTVN. (American talk radio network). 2001. Interviewed about human cloning and genetic

engineering.

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476. BBC World Service (UK radio). 2001. Discussion on cosmological fine-tuning and the anthropic

principle.

477. Discovery Channel (Canadian television). 2001. Interviewed about the future of humanity.

478. Tech (web TV). 2001. Interviewed about artificial intelligence and uploading.

479. Ne(x)t Text (press agency). 2001. Interviewed about transhumanism.

480. Vision (Swedish magazine). 2001. Interviewed about transhumanism.

481. Rank (London-based fashion magazine). 2001. Portrayed and interviewed.

482. WRRN (American cable-television news network). 2001. Interviewed on the ethics of human cloning.

483. Aftershock (Australian national television). 2001. Interviewed about transhumanism and my views on the

nanotechnology, the ethics and science of life-extension, mood drugs, and future of artificial

intelligence.

484. Heart of the Matter (BBC television, UK). 2000. Interviewed about ethical and scientific issues related to

life-extension research and a possible cure for aging. Writing and presenting the first half of the

program, and partaking in a studio debate in the second half.

485. Changesurfer Radio. 2000. Half-hour interview by Dr. J. Hughes about my philosophical research.

486. LSE News and Views. 2000, Vol. 22, No. 3, p. 1. Special feature on my work on observation selection

effects, and on being awarded the John Templeton Foundation grant.

487. Work Predictions (BBC television, UK). 2000. Interviewed about virtual reality and teleworking.

488. BBC Radio. 2000. Interviewed by Jeremy Grange about technical, philosophical and social aspects of

mind uploading.

489. Resonance Publications. April, 2000. Feature-length interview on analytic philosophy, transhumanism,

education, and government. Republished by Pantaneto Forum (online magazine) in 2002.

490. The World Wide Web Radio Show (U.S. talk radio network, Redband Broadcasting). 2000. Interviewed

about transhumanism and the impact of future technologies.

491. London Radio & Associated Press Television News. 2000. Interviewed about transhumanism and life-

extension.

492. LSE News and Views. 2000, Vol. 21, No. 10, p. 1. Featured on my views on the philosophy of technology,

particularly regarding life-extension.

493. Rage Against the Machines (documentary). 2000. Interviewed by Karen Powell.

494. The Analytics. 1999. Hosted an intellectual talk show on PULSE radio.

495. The Today Show (BBC radio). 1999. Interviewed by Mike Thomson about the impact of future

technologies, especially artificial intelligence.

496. Sunday Times (UK national newspaper). 1999. Interviewed by Martin Wroe about the consequences of

artificial intelligence and molecular nanotechnology.

497. Web Heads. 1999. Featured in episodic television series. Producer: Wally & Murk Corp.

498. Haaretz (Israeli national newspaper). 1999. Interviewed about transhumanism.

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499. New Scientist Magazine. 6 June 1998: No 2137, pp. 26-30. Interviewed about physicist Max Tegmark’s

“Theory of Everything”.

500. Radio Debate, London. 21 October 1998. Interviewed about public policy on smoking.

501. The Alberta Report (Canadian newspaper). 27 April 1998. Interviewed about transhumanism.

502. Channel 5 (UK national television). 1997. Performed stand-up comedy.

503. Helsingborgs Dagblad (Swedish newspaper). 1992. Interviewed about my art exhibition.

504. Sydsvenska Dagbladet (Swedish newspaper). 1992. Interviewed about my art.

1992: 2

1993: 0

1994: 0

1995: 0

1996: 0

1997: 1

1998: 3

1999: 5

2000: 10

2001: 17

2002: 30

2003: 25

2004: 24

2005: 36

2006: 52

2007: 50

2008: 62

2009: 40

2010: 57

2011: 43

2012: 33