What happens when brain-computer interfaces intersect with philosophy, religion, and ethics? In this engaging presentation, Dr. James Hughes, Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and a longtime member of the Global [...]

A viral LinkedIn post claims South Korean neuroscientists transferred a memory from one human brain to another, but there is no published evidence supporting this. What is real is that researchers have identified and manipulated [...]

A community called Women in AI Ethics recently shared a reading list on The Dark Side of Silicon Valley: eight books, including Dying for an iPhone, Atlas of AI, Your Face Belongs to Us, Careless [...]

The Dead Donor Rule has long required that a patient be dead before organs are removed. A new proposal asks whether patients who have already chosen euthanasia should be allowed to donate organs before death, [...]

Uganda's declaration that it is Ebola free is a public health success worth celebrating. The virus, however, has not disappeared. While Uganda contained just 20 cases and ended the outbreak after the required 42-day waiting [...]

Open-ended consent asks donors to agree that their tissue may be used for future research they can't specifically anticipate. It sounds like a reasonable compromise because science moves in directions no one can fully predict. [...]