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Book Launch: Pandemic Ethics: From Covid-19 to Disease X
Press release and an interview with Prof Dominic Wilkinson on the new book, Pandemic Ethics: From Covid-19 to Disease X, which he has co-authored with Prof Julian Savulescu. Press Release: Are we ethically prepared for Disease X? 1 May 2023 According to some estimates, there is more than a one in four chance in the…
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In Praise of Unthinking National Religion
By Charles Foster Image: Easter on Santorini: Georgios Michos, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons: Link to image here. I spent Orthodox Easter in Greece. Then, and for the week afterwards, the neon displays over the main roads announced ‘Christ is Risen’, and the shopkeepers wished me a ‘Good Resurrection’. This piety isn’t reserved…
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It is not about AI, it is about humans
Written by Alberto Giubilini We might be forgiven for asking so frequently these days whether we should trust artificial intelligence. Too much has been written about the promises and perils of ChatGPT to escape the question. Upon reading both enthusiastic and concerned accounts of it, there seems to be very little the software cannot do.…
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ChatGPT Has a Sexual Harassment Problem
written by César Palacios-González @CPalaciosG If I were to post online that you have been accused of sexually harassing someone, you could rightly maintain that this is libellous. This is a false statement that damages your reputation. You could demand that I correct it and that I do so as soon as possible. The legal…
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How Brain-to-Brain Interfaces Will Make Things Difficult for Us
Written by David Lyreskog A growing number of technologies are currently being developed to improve and distribute thinking and decision-making. Rapid progress in brain-to-brain interfacing, and hybrid and artificial intelligence, promises to transform how we think about collective and collaborative cognitive tasks. With implementations ranging from research to entertainment, and from therapeutics to military…
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Video Interview: Introducing Dr Emma Dore Horgan
An interview with OUC academic visitor and former Oxford Uehiro Centre DPhil student Dr Emma Dore Horgan on her research into the ethics of neuro-interventions for offenders.
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Prof Matthias Braun discussing the value of academic collaboration
In a new short video academic visitor Matthias Braun discusses the value of academic collaboration with the Uehiro Centre’s Rebecca Brown.
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Video Interview: Introducing Oxford Uehiro Centre’s Academic Visitor, Prof Dr Matthias Braun
In the first of a new series of short videos produced by the OUC introducing the academic visitors at the Oxford Uehiro Centre and the practical ethics research that they are involved in.
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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Turning up the Hedonic Treadmill: Is It Morally Impermissible for Parents to Give Their Children a Luxurious Standard of Living?
This essay was the overall winner in the Undergraduate Category of the 2023 National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Written by University of Oxford student, Lukas Joosten Most parents think they are helping their children when they give them a very high standard of life. This essay argues that giving luxuries to your children…