Artificial Life Technology Ethics Research

At the beginning of the new century, life science began to stride after the ageof synthetic biology, related research results are widely used in energy,environment, materials, medicine and other fields. This paper to J. Craig Venterresearch team first produce can achieve self-replicating synthetic life (Cynthia) asthe starting point, the artificial life techniques in life ethics, environmental ethicsand traditional ethic principles in regard to the possible problems are analysed anddiscussed, and make use of the clone technology, gene technology and the synthesisof Biology of latest research results as arguments to support the author’s point ofview, try to take a positive, progressive, reasonable and predictable ethics researchmethod, the artificial life technology current situation and future prospect ofartificial life potential scientific technical and ethical problems on a rational andanalysis. This paper is divided into five parts: the first part of this paper describesthe artificial life technology research and ethics research present situation,introduced the artificial life techniques and the technology ethics researchsignificance; the second part from a bioethical perspective artificial life techniquesused in organ transplantation may exists problems, and the technology on life ethicsprinciple violation; in the third part of environmental ethics field of vision, fromthe artificial life technology to solve environmental pollution and animal, planttransformation may existence the question to embark, elaborated which implicateenvironmental ethics principle; the fourth part is to" cyborg ", focusing on humansubjectivity as well as the personality dignity discuss, elaborated " Cyborg" maybring negative effect; the last part from the current technical problems aboutartificial life potential threat concerns, in the technique involves responsibility andtechnical safety problems and put forward some suggestions, hoping to artificiallife techniques become truly synthetic biology exploration breakthrough point, theartificial life healthier, safer for human services.