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horizon: "present"horizon: "present"categories: ["organizations", "people"]categories: ["organizations", "people"]tags: ["transhumanism", "movements", "advocacy", "bioethics", "nonprofit", "intellectual history"]tags: ["transhumanism", "movements", "advocacy", "bioethics", "nonprofit", "intellectual history"]summary: "The main international transhumanist membership organization, founded in 1998 as the World Transhumanist Association and now largely dormant as an institution."summary: "The main international transhumanist membership organization, founded in 1998 as the World Transhumanist Association and now a small education and advocacy body."updated: "2026-07-27"updated: "2026-08-23"issues: ["The current-activity assessment cites no source and will date quickly.", "Nothing on funding or membership size, which an organization article should cover."]issues: ["Membership size is not stated anywhere citable."]------ ```infobox```infoboxlines 21–32 → 21–326 unchanged lines not shown
{ "label": "Core document", "value": "The Transhumanist Declaration" }, { "label": "Core document", "value": "The Transhumanist Declaration" }, { "label": "Publications", "value": "Journal of Evolution and Technology; H+ Magazine" }, { "label": "Publications", "value": "Journal of Evolution and Technology; H+ Magazine" }, { "label": "Notable chairs", "value": "James Hughes, Natasha Vita-More", "link": "/wiki/natasha-vita-more" }, { "label": "Notable chairs", "value": "James Hughes, Natasha Vita-More", "link": "/wiki/natasha-vita-more" }, { "label": "Current activity", "value": "Minimal" } { "label": "Executive director", "value": "Edward Hudgins, since December 2024" } ] ]}}`````` **Humanity+** is an international nonprofit membership organization founded in 1998 as the World Transhumanist Association to advocate for the ethical use of technology to extend human capacities. It was created as a deliberately academic and politically non-aligned alternative to [[extropianism]], and for roughly a decade it was the institutional centre of [[transhumanism]]. Its influence has since dispersed into specialized fields — AI safety, longevity biotech, bioethics — and the organization itself now operates at a low level.**Humanity+** is an international nonprofit membership organization founded in 1998 as the World Transhumanist Association to advocate for the ethical use of technology to extend human capacities. It was created as a deliberately academic and politically non-aligned alternative to [[extropianism]], and for roughly a decade it was the institutional centre of [[transhumanism]]. Its influence has since dispersed into specialized fields — AI safety, longevity biotech, bioethics — and the organization itself now operates at a much smaller scale, as an education and advocacy body. ## Overview## Overview lines 40–46 → 40–467 unchanged lines not shown
James Hughes, a sociologist and bioethicist, served as executive director in the mid-2000s and pushed the organization toward what he called democratic transhumanism: the position that enhancement technologies should be publicly regulated and universally accessible, and that a libertarian transhumanism would produce exactly the stratified outcome its critics predicted.[^hughes2004] This produced sustained internal conflict with the organization's libertarian membership, and Hughes left the WTA in the late 2000s. He and Bostrom had already founded a separate body, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, in 2004.James Hughes, a sociologist and bioethicist, served as executive director in the mid-2000s and pushed the organization toward what he called democratic transhumanism: the position that enhancement technologies should be publicly regulated and universally accessible, and that a libertarian transhumanism would produce exactly the stratified outcome its critics predicted.[^hughes2004] This produced sustained internal conflict with the organization's libertarian membership, and Hughes left the WTA in the late 2000s. He and Bostrom had already founded a separate body, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, in 2004. The renaming to Humanity+ in 2008 was accompanied by *H+ Magazine*, a consumer-facing publication, and by a series of conferences. [[natasha-vita-more]] chaired the organization and later served as executive director, bringing the design and arts strand of transhumanism into its official identity.The renaming to Humanity+ in 2008 was accompanied by *H+ Magazine*, a consumer-facing publication, and by a series of conferences. [[natasha-vita-more]] chaired the organization and later served as executive director, bringing the design and arts strand of transhumanism into its official identity. She stepped down in December 2024, taking the title of president emeritus, and Edward Hudgins, a policy writer and founder of the Human Achievement Alliance, became executive director, with the board announcing that it was reassessing what the organization's next challenges should be.[^hplus2024] ```timeline```timeline[[lines 49–55 → 49–562 unchanged lines not shown
{ "year": "2004", "title": "The democratic turn", "text": "James Hughes's Citizen Cyborg argues for regulated, universally accessible enhancement, opening a lasting split with the libertarian membership." }, { "year": "2004", "title": "The democratic turn", "text": "James Hughes's Citizen Cyborg argues for regulated, universally accessible enhancement, opening a lasting split with the libertarian membership." }, { "year": "2008", "title": "Rebranding", "text": "The WTA becomes Humanity+ and launches H+ Magazine for a general readership." }, { "year": "2008", "title": "Rebranding", "text": "The WTA becomes Humanity+ and launches H+ Magazine for a general readership." }, { "year": "2009", "title": "Declaration revised", "text": "A rewritten Transhumanist Declaration is adopted, emphasizing risk, access and the moral standing of non-human minds." }, { "year": "2009", "title": "Declaration revised", "text": "A rewritten Transhumanist Declaration is adopted, emphasizing risk, access and the moral standing of non-human minds." }, { "year": "2010s", "title": "Dispersal", "text": "The movement's intellectual energy migrates to AI risk research, longevity companies and academic bioethics; the organization's activity declines." } { "year": "2010s", "title": "Dispersal", "text": "The movement's intellectual energy migrates to AI risk research, longevity companies and academic bioethics; the organization's activity declines." }, { "year": "2024", "title": "Succession", "text": "Natasha Vita-More steps down as executive director and becomes president emeritus; Edward Hudgins takes over, and the board announces a reassessment of the organization's mission." }]]`````` lines 82–88 → 83–8926 unchanged lines not shown
## Current activity## Current activity As of 2026 Humanity+ maintains a web presence and nominal membership but has no significant research programme, and its conferences and publications have largely stopped. This is not a scandal so much as a succession. The specific concerns that motivated the WTA are now pursued by organizations with money and staff: AI risk by dedicated research institutes, life extension by companies such as [[altos-labs]] and [[retro-biosciences]] and by prize bodies such as [[xprize-healthspan]], neural interface ethics by the [[neurorights]] campaign. The umbrella organization proved less durable than the topics it assembled.As of 2026 Humanity+ continues to operate, but as a small education and advocacy body rather than the institutional centre it once was. Its own announcement of the December 2024 leadership change put total donations raised over Vita-More's tenure at just over $400,000 — a figure that locates the organization's scale more precisely than any description could — and listed its programmes as summits, workshops and the H+ Academy webinar series.[^hplus2024] Its current site presents the organization as education-focused, with a webinar series, an AI advisory board, and an annual Longevity Day observance; the large conferences and *H+ Magazine* are described in the past tense.[^hplus2026] This is not a scandal so much as a succession. The specific concerns that motivated the WTA are now pursued by organizations with money and staff: AI risk by dedicated research institutes, life extension by companies such as [[altos-labs]] and [[retro-biosciences]] and by prize bodies such as [[xprize-healthspan]], neural interface ethics by the [[neurorights]] campaign. The umbrella organization proved less durable than the topics it assembled. The open question is whether transhumanism still needs a general institution. The arguments have professionalized and separated; a bioethicist working on [[germline-editing]] governance and an engineer working on [[brain-computer-interface]] bandwidth now have little occasion to meet under a shared banner. Whether anything is lost when that connective tissue disappears is unresolved, and the case that something is lost rests on the observation that the field's most consequential questions — about identity, access and what is worth becoming — belong to none of the specialties individually.The open question is whether transhumanism still needs a general institution. The arguments have professionalized and separated; a bioethicist working on [[germline-editing]] governance and an engineer working on [[brain-computer-interface]] bandwidth now have little occasion to meet under a shared banner. Whether anything is lost when that connective tissue disappears is unresolved, and the case that something is lost rests on the observation that the field's most consequential questions — about identity, access and what is worth becoming — belong to none of the specialties individually. lines 103–106 → 104–10914 unchanged lines not shown
[^bostrom2005]: `paper` Bostrom, N. "In Defense of Posthuman Dignity." *Bioethics*, 2005.[^bostrom2005]: `paper` Bostrom, N. "In Defense of Posthuman Dignity." *Bioethics*, 2005.[^reader2013]: `book` More, M. and Vita-More, N. (eds.) *The Transhumanist Reader*. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.[^reader2013]: `book` More, M. and Vita-More, N. (eds.) *The Transhumanist Reader*. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.[^bostrom2005b]: `paper` Bostrom, N. "A History of Transhumanist Thought." *Journal of Evolution and Technology*, 2005. {A history of the movement written by one of its founders and published in the journal the organization itself launched.}[^bostrom2005b]: `paper` Bostrom, N. "A History of Transhumanist Thought." *Journal of Evolution and Technology*, 2005. {A history of the movement written by one of its founders and published in the journal the organization itself launched.}[^hplus2024]: `statement` Humanity+. "Changes at Humanity+ — Our Future Path." humanityplus.org, December 2024. {The organization's own announcement of the Vita-More–Hudgins transition; the donation total and programme list are its self-report, not an audited account.}[^hplus2026]: `statement` Humanity+. humanityplus.org, accessed August 2026. {The organization's current self-description; it records what the site presents as active, which is not evidence of the scale at which any of it runs.} removed, struck through added, underlinedLine numbers count the serialised markdown of each revision, frontmatter included.
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