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Outreach and Dissemination , , , April 26, 2023

Emerging ethical issues in research on consciousness

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A recent special issue of the American Journal of Bioethics –  Neuroscience offers analyses of different ethical issues raised by research on consciousness. Contributions from international scholars in the field address challenges ranging from moral interpretations, technological manipulations, artificial replications, pharmacological alternations and the potential to attribute consciousness to engineered brain cells. The issue is…

Ethics and Society, Events and Publications , April 12, 2023

Implementing responsible research and innovation in the Human Brain Project

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Attention to ethical and societal issues have been an important and integral part of the Human Brain Project. From the very beginning in 2013 until today. Over the years, researchers from the social sciences and the humanities have developed governance structures and mechanisms to integrate responsible research and innovation (RRI) practices across the project. But…

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Artificial intelligence, Events and Publications , , April 3, 2023

Time to rethink the AI ethics narrative

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Artificial intelligence is challenging frameworks for both ethics and human rights and becoming a hot topic for both societal and scientific debate. AI is also placed at the top of the agenda for research and innovation policy makers. A recent publication in Technological Forecasting and Social Change presents the results from a Delphi study, inviting…