The Bioethics of AI in the Healthcare Industry
What is artificial intelligence (AI)? There is no universally agreed definition of AI. Broadly speaking, AI tends to refer to computing technologies that replicate or resemble processes and tasks associated with human intelligence, such as [...]
Call for Applications: “Wars, Diseases & Bioethics” Online Spring School March 25-30 2024
Bioethics Education International (BEI) invites participants (students and professionals) across the globe to attend the spring school to be held from March 25 to 30, 2024. The spring school includes lectures and seminars, film screenings, [...]
Global Bioethics Initiative Launch, February 14, 2013, ONE UN Plaza Hotel
Charles Debrovner, M.D., President, and Ana Lita, Ph.D., Executive Director, make opening remarks at Global Bioethics Initiative's (GBI) launch event at ONE UN Plaza Hotel on Feb. 14, 2013. The panel discussed the medical, social, [...]
Jonathan D. Moreno Ph.D. Keynote Speaker
Jonathan D. Moreno Ph.D. is the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) professor. At Penn, he is also a Professor of Medical [...]
Jeanne F. Loring Ph.D. Keynote Speaker
Co-Founder, Aspen Neuroscience Dr. Jeanne Loring is a world-renowned stem cell scientist and co-founder of Aspen Neuroscience. Dr. Loring’s work provided the expertise and intellectual property in genomics, iPSCs, and neurobiology that enables Aspen’s autologous [...]
‘People aren’t taking this seriously’: experts say US Covid surge is big risk
In the fourth year of the pandemic, Covid-19 is once again spreading across America and being driven by the recent holidays, fewer precautions and the continuing evolution of Omicron subvariants of the virus. New sub-variants [...]
The gift that doesn’t keep on giving: non-existence
The philosophy of anti-natalism refuses to die. In the latest issue of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Finnish bioethicist Matti Häyry renews the argument for reproductive abstinence. The headline over the article gives the game away: [...]
Ethical ancient DNA research must involve descendant communities, say researchers
The analysis of ancient DNA allows scientists to trace human evolution and make important discoveries about modern populations. The data revealed by ancient DNA sampling can be valuable, but the human remains that carry this [...]
How much should people worry about Covid’s newly-dominant XBB.1.5 variant? Our medical analyst explains
A new Covid-19 variant, XBB.1.5, is spreading rapidly throughout the United States. In December 2022, the proportion of new Covid-19 infections due to this Omicron offshoot have increased from 4% to 18%, according to a January [...]
Womb with a view: EctoLife baby farm eliminates pregnancy and labor
The EctoLife Artificial Womb Facility envisages a controversial new way to be pregnant, with the baby growing in an idealized, but completely inhuman environment: transparent “growth pods” arranged by their hundreds in human baby farming [...]