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The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

In this age of utopian technologies, we can design mechanical limbs for amputees and chemically engineer happiness for depressives. But should we? From the fluoride in our water to genetically modified babies, scientific advances pose complex new ethical questions. We ask discuss the major bioethical issues of our time. Is philosophy braced for thi... See more

Emily Jackson • Lse Festival 2019 | Brave New World [Audio]

• New Science Ethicist

Nikita Duggal • Future of Work: What Job Roles Will Look Like In 10 Years [Updated]

“Maximizing the most good for the most number of people” can lead to repugnant conclusions when applied at-scale

Erik Hoel • ‎EconTalk on Apple Podcasts

I count myself among a growing number of scientists who believe that the construction of self identity is not much better than the Lo-fi representations of other people we hold in our heads.

Gregory Berns • The Self Delusion

Ferrandis joins host Danny Crichton to talk about why code and models require different types of licenses, balancing openness with responsibility, how to keep the community adaptive even as AI models are added to more applications, how these new AI licenses are enforced, and what happens when AI models get ever cheaper to train.

Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis • We will observe a battle for the true openness in AI

When it comes to making ethical decisions, human rationality isn't a scientist, it's a lawyer.

Jonah Lehrer • How We Decide

Looking to the future, some neuroscientists envision a dramatic transformation of criminal law. David Eagleman, for one, welcomes a time when “we may someday find that many types of bad behavior have a basic biological explanation [and] eventually think about bad decision making in the same way we think about any physical process, such as diabetes

Sally Satel • Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

The state hopes to regulate the biochemical pursuit of happiness, separating ‘bad’ manipulations from ‘good’ ones.