The Battle for Your Brain
OnlineAt the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence lies a wealth of opportunity for business, labor, and society at large. Yet along with progress comes a host of legal and ethical dilemmas. Join Nita Farahany to consider what our neurological information is worth, and the implications of making it available to corporations, work places and government. The...
“Binocularity”: A Conceptual Tool for Comprehending and Respecting Persons
OnlineHastings Center senior scholar Erik Parens will be giving a lecture at Smith College on “Binocularity”: A Tool for Comprehending Persons.
Confronting Climate Change in a Perfect Moral Storm
OnlineAre ethicists asleep at the wheel in protecting planetary health? Global warming is intertwined with persistent problems of social justice, systemic racism, the U.S. history of colonial oppression, and the dominance of capitalist consumer norms over health and health care. Why are these bioethical injustices? Why are these issues still not a central concern for many?...