🌟 Call for Nominations! 🌟 The Baruch Brody Award honors open-rank scholars for their impactful theoretical contributions to bioethics. Self or peer-nominate by July 15th! Learn more and apply: bcm.edu/academic-cente… #Bioethics #Award #Scholars #BaruchBrodyAward

Very great to be part of a BCI and Ethics session at #ASSFN2024 with ChangLabUCSF and Tim Lucas, MD, PhD, MHCI organized by Parag G Patil, MD PhD . Thx for making ethics part of the discussion. Great community of neurosurgeons focused on patient care & sci advancement!

This is a tough but important episode to listen to. Did you know that animals were used in car crash tests? And in psychological experiments, primates are kept in a small cage all of their lives? Animals are not ours to use.

Our NRP special issue is live! Read it here: tandfonline.com/toc/uajb20/24/…

Our June NRP Special Issue issue is live! Read it here: tandfonline.com/toc/uajb20/24/…

Check out our new The American Journal of Bioethics target article, "Is Suffering a Useless Concept?" with Ryan Nelson PhD; Brent Kious MD, PhD; Emily Largent, Bryanna Moore supported by The Greenwall Foundation tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I just had the pleasure of hearing Joshua Cohen’s annual lecture at University of Oxford. Professor Cohen made several excellent and timely points around algorithms and fairness - to which the entire room was deeply engaged. The energy was palpable. One point he made (that I haven’t

FOR ALL PAPER REVIEWERS: 1. Thank you. 2. Please do not put confidential comments to editor that are not in line with your comments to authors--it confuses them and makes it hard to understand editorial decisions. 3. SUPER appreciate reviewer suggestions if you cannot review.🙏

Read an editorial from our June issue at Bioethics Today from editor-in chief, Dr. David Magnus: "Resuscitating the Dead: NRP and Language" bioethicstoday.org/blog/resuscita…

Coming up in Berlin in August: "LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use," organized by Anna Strasser DenkWerkstatt Berlin & colleagues, featuring a talk by my PhD student Mia Brandtner on "Interpretative Gaps in LLMs - The Trial to Bridge the Limits of Language with Multi-Modal LLMs": #aiethics

The INS & the IYNA have put out a call for the #Neuroethics Essay Contest aimed at students & trainees around the world. There are several written essay categories, in addition to a video essay category. Submissions due July! Please view the full call at neuroethicsessaycontest.com

Ethical Complexities in Utilizing Artificial Intelligence for Surrogate Decision Making tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Check out our new piece with Faith Fletcher, PhD, MA Brendan Saloner Lauren A Taylor Peter Ubel Bryanna Moore and Ryan Nelson The Greenwall Foundation

Enjoyed discussing our team’s work on Moral Issues in Medical AI with the Berlin Ethics Lab TU Berlin last week!

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This debate though

Current mood in H-town 👀

Restoration progress is slow today it seems. Very slow. Believe less than 100k have come back. These things are hard and I’m the first in line to share that with people. But this is pretty bad. I don’t want to hear that the state is looking at this. This needs to be federal.

This was one of the most illuminating and moving conversations I’ve heard in a long time. A must listen.

Second week of the semester and I've already had students use (and own up to using) ChatGPT to write their first assignment: "briefly introduce yourself and say what you're hoping to get out of this class". They are also using it to word the *questions they ask in class*.

With Keisha Ray, PhD Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD, HEC-C and David Magnus.