Robots & Rights: Will artificial intelligence change the meaning of human rights?
Held: Tuesday 15th January 2008
<p>Is the future of robotics fact of fiction? What is artificial intelligence truly capable of producing? What are the challenges to humanity and how could this impinge on our human rights?</p>

Transhuman minds: Is cognitive enhancement a human right?
Held: Tuesday 11th March 2008
<p>The prospect of being able to enhance human cognition presents a nexus of questions associated with future ambitions, hopes and concerns. Should individuals be allowed the freedom and the right to decide for themselves how best to use enhancement technologies? </p>

Privacy and Surveillance: Monitoring humans and monitoring human rights?
Held: Monday 12th May 2008
<p>Who should decide what information is collected and monitored? Is privacy a thing of the past? Is the society that George Orwell depicted a model to aspire to or a case study to avoid at all cost? BioCentre invited guests to an assessment of the issues surrounding privacy and surveillance informed by key academics and industry specialists within this field of study. </p>

Arts and Technology: The role of the arts in democratic policy making
Held: Tuesday 14th October 2008
<p>When it comes to developments in science and technology, public perceptions on these issues are influenced largely by the various sources in the public square including the media and the arts. </p><p> </p>