# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:40:16.417Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-hughes"
name: "James Hughes"
slug: "james-hughes"
description: "James J. Hughes is an American sociologist, bioethicist and futurist. He is the executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and is the Associate Provost for institutional research, assessment, and planning at University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future and is currently writing a book on secular Buddhism and moral bioenhancement tentatively titled Cyborg Buddha: Using Neurotechnology to Become Better People."
tagline: "American sociologist and bioethicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Hughes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-05-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.47
  momentum:             0.288
  historical:           5.689814666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hughes"
    title: "James Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9)"
    title: "جيمس هيوز (عالم اجتماع)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hughes_(sociologist)"
    title: "James Hughes (sociologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hughes"
    title: "James Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hughes"
    title: "James Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hughes"
    title: "James Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3544625"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump