Stephen Cave
Writer
Books
Stephen Cave is Director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity, and Academic Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, at the University of Cambridge.
Stephen earned a PhD in philosophy from Cambridge. He then joined the British Foreign Office, where he served for nearly a decade as a policy advisor and diplomat before returning to writing and academia.
He writes on a broad range of philosophical and scientific subjects, including for the Financial Times, Guardian, New York Times and others. His books on the ethics of life-extension and the philosophy of (im)mortality include Should You Choose To Live Forever? (with John Martin Fischer, Routledge, 2023) and Immortality (Crown, Penguin Random House, 2012), a New Scientist book of the year now available in many other languages.
His books on AI include the co-edited volumes AI Narratives (Oxford University Press, 2020), Imagining AI (Oxford University Press, 2023), and Feminist AI (Oxford University Press, 2023).
His research has been covered in many hundreds of media outlets, from The Atlantic to the Daily Mail. He regularly gives keynote talks and lectures, and is a frequent guest on radio and television around the world.
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2012 Biteback | Who wants to live forever? According to Stephen Cave, we all do - every single one of us. And the evidence is all around. Eluding the Grim Reaper is humanity's oldest and most pervasive wish. But all our many strategies for defying death fall into four simple categories — the four paths to immortality. Ranging across continents and cultures, from ancient Egypt to cutting-edge laboratories, IMMORTALITY raises the curtain on what compels us humans to keep on going and whether we can keep on going forever. “A must-read exploration of what spurs human ingenuity… Cave presents an extremely compelling case – one that has changed my view of the driving force of civilization as much as Jared Diamond did years ago with his brilliant book Guns, Germs and Steel.” “An epic inquiry into the human desire to defy death – and how to overcome it… Cave meticulously follows the right path to the right conclusion, rightly stated.” “Thoughtful and beautifully clear.” |