Transhumanist Party Enlightenment Salon

On Sunday, March 29, 2026, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invited Pete Karas, who is running for Secretary of State in Wisconsin and seeking the USTP’s endorsement, to discuss his campaign and key ideas, as well as areas of alignment with the U.S. Transhumanist Party Platform.  Pete Karas believes that government should embrace innovation and use technology to improve democratic participation, acces...

Listen to the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s conversation with Boyang Wang, Founder of Immortal Dragons, a purpose-driven longevity fund based in Singapore focused on advancing life-extension and rejuvenation biotechnology, streamed on Sunday, March 22, 2026. This Virtual Enlightenment Salon discusses Boyang Wang’s support for longevity projects and what initiatives in the longevity field he considers...

On Sunday, March 15, 2026, the U.S. Transhumanist Party continued its exploration of the precursors of transhumanism and featured a special Virtual Enlightenment Salon stream that paid homage to one of the foremost thinkers of the original Age of Enlightenment, Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1743 – 1794). Condorcet wrote his “Outlines of a Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mi...

On Sunday, March 8, 2026, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invited Michael Fossel, MD, PhD, to discuss key ideas from his new book “Reversal: Science, Medicine, and a Future Beyond Aging”, which characterizes aging as a specific failure of cellular maintenance. As telomeres (the ends of our chromosomes) shorten, they signal our genes to slow down molecular repair. Our cells accumulate damage not becau...

On March 1, 2026, the U.S. Transhumanist Party hosted a discussion of the war that was initiated by the administrations of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu against Iran on February 28, 2026. Questions addressed included the following: - What is the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s stance on this war? - How would Transhumanist policies have led to different, more peaceful outcomes? - How will this war...

On February 22, 2026, the U.S. Transhumanist Party featured a special Virtual Enlightenment Salon stream in which U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II narrated two historic writings on transhumanism by the philosopher, biologist, and statesman Julian Huxley (1887-1975), who formulated the concept of transhumanism as a worldview in his lecture “Knowledge, Morality, and Destiny” in...

On Sunday, February 15, 2026, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invited author and futurist George J. Chanos to provide his analysis of ongoing geopolitical conflicts and rivalries through the frame of the race to reach artificial general intelligence. The conversation addressed the risks and dangers of these great-power tensions and also explore the possibility of a better approach – one that could ac...

On Sunday, February 8, 2026, the U.S. Transhumanist Party hosted a stream to familiarize viewers with the Rodent Aging Interventions Database (RAID), a project of the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation (LEVF).  RAID provides a visual representation of the extension in lifespan achieved during published interventional studies in normally-aging rodents (mice and rats). It was co-developed by Maxim...

On Sunday, February 1, 2026, the U.S. Transhumanist Party (USTP) streamed the video premiere of the 2024 Global Cryonics Summit presentation by Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the USTP, entitled "Cryonics and Politics: Desirable Changes to Achieve Mass Adoption of Cryonics". Chairman Stolyarov spoke about the changes – political, economic, societal – that would be important in his view in order...

On Sunday, January 25, 2026, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invited Professor Stefan Lorenz Sorgner to discuss his forthcoming book “Euro-Transhumanism” and to continue the conversation on how Euro-Transhumanism can offer potential ways to transcend the political polarization of our era. The first Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Professor Sorgner concluded with his remarks on how both the MAGA Righ...

On Sunday, January 18, 2026, a multifaceted U.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon featured a philosophical conversation on intelligence and consciousness in the age of AI. What are the prerequisites of consciousness? Does intelligence necessarily imply consciousness or are the two distinct? At what point might an AI system become conscious, and how could we tell? What would be neede...

On Sunday, January 11, 2026, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invited Hunter Rand, a candidate for City Council in Sparks, Nevada, Ward 2, who was endorsed by the U.S. Pirate Party in November 2025 and became endorsed by the USTP in the course of the discussion.  This Virtual Enlightenment Salon provided an in-depth glimpse into Hunter Rand’s outlook on the issues, campaign, and broader policy thinkin...