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National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Undisclosed Conversational AIs: A Threat to Users’ Autonomy
This article received an honourable mention in the graduate category of the 2024 National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. Written by Beatrice Marchegiani. Introduction Recent advancements in Large Language Models have enabled AI systems to engage in conversations with users that are virtually indistinguishable from human interactions. The proliferation of advanced Conversational AIs (CAIs)1…
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Announcement of the Finalists of the 10th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
The 10th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Final Presentation and Reception HT24 Week 9, Tuesday 12th March, 5:30pm – 7:45pm. We are pleased to announce the four finalists of the 10th National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and to invite you to attend the final where they will present their entries.…
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Why a US State Court Ruling on the Rights of Children Before Birth is Unjust
Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford. In 2020, in a medical facility in one of the southern states of the US, a patient wandered into an unsecured nursery for extremely premature children. Unfortunately, the patient managed to accidentally disconnect multiple babies from their life support. Worried that they would get in trouble, they fled the scene.…
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Objective Morality
What could be better to relaunch our new blog than a picture of my favourite socks? “Socks!?’, I hear you cry. But these are no ordinary socks. They are Soc. Soc. Socks, presented to me after not so long ago I was invited to participate in a debate at the Socratic Society in Oxford on…
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Cross Post: Spectator TV – Should the government ban smoking? With Kate Andrews and Dominic Wilkinson
Oxford Uehiro Centre’s Professor Dominic Wilkinson discusses the government’s proposal to ban smoking with The Spectator.
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AI Authorship: Responsibility is Not Required
This is the fifth in a series of blogposts by the members of the Expanding Autonomy project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. by Neil Levy AI is rapidly being adopted across all segments of academia (as it is across much of society). The landscape is rapidly changing, and we haven’t yet settled…
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Political Campaigning, Microtargeting, and the Right to Information
Written by Cristina Voinea 2024 is poised to be a challenging year, partly because of the important elections looming on the horizon – from the United States and various European countries to Russia (though, let us admit, surprises there might be few). As more than half of the global population is on social media,…
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Cross Post: Should A Health Professional Be Disciplined For Reporting An Illegal Abortion?
Written by: Prof Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. There have been several high-profile cases in the last year of women in the UK being prosecuted for allegedly obtaining abortions illegally. In 2022, there were 29 cases of suspected unlawful…