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The Lancet Digital Health has published a paper from BKC Executive Director Urs Gasser and colleagues from ETH Zurich's Health Ethics & Policy Lab. Combining health policy, ethics, & tech governance knowledge with practical experience, the paper contributes to best-practice building during the global pandemic.
Achieving the global benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) will require international cooperation on many areas of governance and ethical standards, while allowing for diverse cultural perspectives and priorities.
How can qualitative researchers collect data during social-distancing measures?
A Nobel laureate is being praised for retracting a scientific paper that was not reproducible.
When I sat down to think about what to say during this panel entitled "Are there ethical limits to what science can achieve or should pursue", I couldn't help but feel intellectually stuck in three paradoxes, paradoxes that I think animate our condition today, and that I take as a point of departure for my talk. First. Alongside the unprecedented potential of science and technology to solve complex global challenges, there is a perpetual threat of a catastrophe: from the atomic bomb to chemical,
He Jiankui's manuscript shows how he ignored ethical and scientific norms in creating the gene-edited twins Lulu and Nana.
A graduate student's suicide at UW Madison is a devastating cautionary tale about abusive lab environments.
Mark Israel explores the ethics of self-plagiarism and asks, when is it right to reproduce social research?
From all too scarce, to professionalized, the ethics of research is now everybody's business, argues Sarah Franklin.
Eco groups and global treaty blamed for delay in supply of vitamin-A enriched Golden Rice
As AI technology develops rapidly, it is widely recognized that ethical guidelines are required for safe and fair implementation in society. But is it possible to agree on what is 'ethical AI'? A detailed analysis of 84 AI ethics reports around the world, from national and international organizations, companies and institutes, explores this question, finding a convergence around core principles but substantial divergence on practical implementation.
Researchers need guidance on how to handle published work whose ethics have been questioned.
The ethical issues swirling around artificial intelligence (AI) are under-researched, with surprisingly little serious academic investigation into AI ethics, despite the huge amount of money pouring into the field and the rampant pace at which the technology is advancing.
To be successful as researchers, we must be able to think through the impacts of our work on society and speak up when necessary.
Study finds failure of English language medical journals to comply with international ethical standards.
Opinion: Black scientists are in the best position to understand what is so broken about the ideas of Watson and his army.
Scientists say that increasingly rigorous licensing procedures have complicated research efforts - and in some cases, stopped experiments completely.
UBC scientists spent decades developing Glybera, the world's first approved gene therapy. But market forces needed just two years to make the potentially life-saving drug disappear.
Oliver says gene editing is "going to cure all disease or kill every last one of us".
