Engineering and Safeguarding Synthetic Life
I greatly appreciated the thoughtful discussions at the Technical Workshop on Mirror Life (a report will follow soon). It was also a real pleasure to chair the half-day open panel on Safeguarding Synthetic Life at the Engineering and Safeguarding Synthetic Life 2025 conference. Working with such an interdisciplinary panel—Sophie Gilbert, David Relman, Laurie Zoloth, and James Smith, with additional contributions from John Glass and Hiroaki … Continue reading
Modernities, Global Governance, and the Commons
The question of how multiple modernities can be translated into coordinated forms of global governance remains one of the most pressing challenges of our time. For decades, sociologists have emphasised the ‘variety of modernities’—the recognition that different societies chart their own paths of development, shaped by histories, values, and social institutions. Yet, as science and … Continue reading
Joy Zhang 