Artificial Intelligence and Human Decision-making. Recent developments in artificial intelligence are allowing an increasing number of decisions to be passed from human to machine. Most of these to date are operational decisions – such as a…

Not all ethical issues are equally important. Many ethicists spend their professional lives performing in sideshows. However entertaining the sideshow, sideshow performers do not deserve the same recognition or remuneration as those perform…

Follow David on Twitter @David Edmonds100 Thinking only of your career prospects now, is it better to be sexy or unsexy?  This person was said to be too sexy and lost her job.   But at Abercrombie & Fitch the allegation is that you can’…

by Rebecca Roache Follow Rebecca on Twitter Edit 26th March 2014: It’s been pointed out to me by various people that this blog post does not make adequately clear that I don’t advocate the punishment methods described here. For …

When I last blogged about the surveillance scandal in June, I argued that the core problem was the reasonable doubts we have about whether the oversight is functioning properly, and that the secrecy makes these doubts worse.  Since then a l…

On Monday, London will see the world’s first artificial meat burger cooked and tasted, by Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University. Artificial meat stops cruelty to animals, is better for the environment, could be safer and more efficie…

A week ago, Peter Buffett—the son of business magnate Warren Buffett—published an op-ed in The New York Times on what he called “the charitable-industrial complex.” His central thesis was that modern-day philanthropy is a form of “conscienc…

Yesterday, three judges representing the England and Wales Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed a challenge to a High Court ruling that Parliament, rather than judges, should decide whether the law on assisted dying should change.  The cha…

30  July. This blog is an extended version of the post ‘Vaccines: All or Nothing’ (posted 29 July).  A vaccine which would protect children from Meningitis B has been rejected by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisati…