Legal Regulation Prospects in the Context of the Hypothesis of Technology Development of Transhumanism
Authors: Карчевський М. В. 
Published: September 2019

Dangerous forecasts of technology development require an analysis of the prospects for legal regulation in this area. With the help of the method "task-method-provision", legal regulation perspective tasks are formulated in the context of the hypothesis of the technology transhumanism development.The development of technologies cannot be banned. Despite the risk of danger, the absolute prohibition of the transhumanism development technologies is impossible. The law should provide incentives for the socially effective use of technology and minimization of the risks of technology abuse. A separate task of legal regulation should be limiting the destructive effects of global corporations.Legal regulation should ensure the maximum diversification of technological decisions. Technology should not be limited, but on the contrary become as diverse as possible. If the law is to create conditions / requirements to create as many different technology solutions as possible, this will effectively prevent the development of negative impacts. For example, well-known negative scenarios for the implantation epidemic (inflicting harm to mankind due to a violation of the work of all implanted devices) or "black mucus" (destroying planetary biomass by nanobots implementing the program of self-reproduction) will simply be impossible, due to the guaranteed availability of alternative technical solutions.The solution of the problems of the implementation of morphological and reproductive freedom and the legal status of a physical person whose ability is reinforced with the help of transhumanism technologies will be required. Hypothetically, these problems do not seem complicated. The first is solved by finding a balance between the realization of the right of a particular person and the need to ensure overall security, stability and development. The second one is realized by adding certain aggravating or mitigating circumstances, restrictions on the occupation of certain positions, accomplishment of work, etc.So far as monitoring the development and use of certain technologies will require an effective monitoring system, the analysis of legally relevant information will be much more complex and will require fundamentally new professional competencies. The traditional division of tasks between lawyers and specialists will be extremely ineffective. There will be convergence of legal and technical sciences. The solution of the question of the definition and development of new types of legal professions will be required. In this case, the wording of new laws should be made technologically neutral. It is this approach that will ensure the necessary stability of legal regulation in the conditions of rapid changes in technological reality.The significance of the global problem becomes a matter of legal safeguards for the effective development of the informational environment. Huge amounts of information accumulated by humanity in the process of life will obviously require new legal mechanisms. Existing rights to ownership of information and intellectual property rights are likely to be supplemented by new institutions resembling the right to use subsoil and the right to archaeological activity. The set of these issues should be considered as the establishment of a coordinate system for the future legal assessment of both artificial intelligence and technologically advanced people, since it is precisely in this area that the overwhelming part of their socially significant activity will take place.