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Ethics in the Age of AI

A free, online summer programme open to all. This 9-week programme, part of the UOI’s Bitesize Ethics series, provides a short introduction to ethical issues directly related to Artificial Intelligence, beginning with a general introd…

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Press Replay on Ethics: How AI Debate Panels Surface Hidden Value-Trade-Offs

Press Replay on Ethics: How AI Debate Panels Surface Hidden Value-Trade-Offs

TL;DR High-stake policy decisions often involve conflict between values, like fairness versus efficiency, or individual rights versus the common good. The various committees (like hospital ethics boards or policy advisory groups) tasked wit…

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On plans to extend use of chemical castration for sex offenders in England

Secretary of State for Justice Shabana Mahmood is reportedly looking into a potential ‘national rollout of voluntary chemical castration for sex offenders’. The proposal is one of the recommendations outlined in the recently published Indep…

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Profiting from Misery: Is There Something Different About Healthcare Data?

Profiting from Misery: Is There Something Different About Healthcare Data?

By Dr Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert – student on the MSt Practical Ethics programme The advent of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence has opened up new possibilities for health research. Specifically, these techniques could be let loose…

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Dire Wolves and Deep Prompts: Language Models in Applied Ethics

Dire Wolves and Deep Prompts: Language Models in Applied Ethics

You might have seen the headlines: Colossal Biosciences claims to have brought back the dire wolf. Except, it’s not quite a direct resurrection. What Colossal actually created are genetically engineered proxies: grey wolves modified t…

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Uterus Transplants – Ethical and Legal Challenges in the Mexican Context

Uterus Transplants – Ethical and Legal Challenges in the Mexican Context

Author: Dr César Palacios-Gonzalez Discussions about maternal health and rights in Mexico tend to focus on health outcomes and access to healthcare. Academics and activists have long campaigned for the government to invest more re…

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Practical Ethics Schools Day 2025

This year, we hosted the sixth edition of our annual Practical Ethics and Responsibility Competition (PERC). We received 42 entries to the video competition, and though we had many great entries, four finalists emerged as our winning teams,…

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‘Global health’: a problematic concept?

‘Global health’: a problematic concept?

What makes health ‘global’? This is the question I have addressed in a recent article in the journal Developing World Bioethics. I am afraid, however, that I don’t have an answer. Nor was answering the aim of the article. After all, many de…

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Justifying Exclusion From Public Sport

Justifying Exclusion From Public Sport

Graduate Highly Commended paper in the 2025 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics. By Edward Lamb. During the 2024 Paris Olympics, the inclusion of Dutch beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde generated serious controv…

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Bridging the Gaps: How Language Models Can Connect Ethics, Science, and Policy

Bridging the Gaps: How Language Models Can Connect Ethics, Science, and Policy

What this post explores: At its best, practical ethics addresses normative questions with philosophical rigor while remaining grounded in empirical evidence and offering meaningful input for policy. However, the field frequently faces chall…

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