U.S. Transhumanist Party General Discussion Thread for 2026
The purpose of this post is to facilitate member comments pertaining to transhumanism and the U.S. Transhumanist Party (USTP), which might not specifically fit the subjects of any other post or article on the USTP website. This is the place for members to offer suggestions or converse about any areas of emerging technologies and their political, moral, societal, cultural, and esthetic implications. The general discussion thread is also an ideal location to suggest or propose platform planks that may be considered for future platform voting, and/or bring our attention to emerging legislative and societal developments that may affect the course and impact of emerging technologies.
The USTP will endeavor to open one of these general comment threads per year. This comment thread pertains to the year of 2026.
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We need a policy to support making AI, and its necessary data centers, better for the environment. Something along the lines of:
The USTP supports making artificial intelligence, and its infrastructure, environmentally friendly and sustainable. Whether it be through building data centers with significantly lower power requirements, re-investing in and modernizing power infrastructure, other yet to be developed methods, or a combination of all the above we must forge a path that allows artificial intelligence to help humanity and our planet without hurting it in other ways.
Another piece to add: reducing waste from unwanted or unnecessary processes running automatically but unrequested.
In several of our policy planks (section L, for example) we use the language “he, she or its”. “Its” should be removed and replaced with their, they, or them depending on the context.