“If the funders said to me that I have to dress in orange, I would dress in orange”: findings from qualitative interviews on researchers’ experiences of public involvement - Research Involvement and Engagement link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Glad the NYT is covering such timely and important issues, especially with everything that's going on in the world.

🚨 2 CALLS FOR COMMENTARY🚨 1. Death, authorship and generative AI: a call for commentaries jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/... 2. Normalising transparency: an argument for requiring generative AI use declarations in all manuscripts—with a call for commentaries doi.org/10.1136/jme-...

Knowing When to Doubt AI: A Guide to Calibrating Reliance on LLM Outputs www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New 🚨 in JME Practical Bioethics: Confucian middle-way perspective on medically assisted suicide, by Wang et al. jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

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Scientists have announced the successful use of a next-generation tool to precisely edit human embryos’ DNA, highlighting a major advance in the ability to tweak genes as life takes shape — and fueling the debate over the ethics and safety of “designer babies.”

having “The Talk” with my kid (What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Nagel, 1974)

Yes when I was first doing work on the replication crisis around 2012-ish this was one of the most striking things to discover by learning the history ... it was déjà vu all over again

New 🚨 in JME Practical Bioethics: Eugenics reconsidered: why non-Western histories matter for bioethical governance, by Nakao and Sawai jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

New 🚨 in JME Practical Bioethics, by Milford et al. "Secondary victims of animal experimentation: psychosocial hazards in animal laboratories" jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

New post 🚨 Is philosophy too precious for AI? briandavidearp.substack.com/p/is-philoso... ... on the science-humanities divide in LLM appreciation

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Couple’s quashed conviction for female genital mutilation declared a miscarriage of justice | BreakingNews www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/coup...

New preprint 🚨 Transformative *Shared* Experience and Collective Decisions: Can We Rationally Choose What You or I Alone Cannot? -- with Isaac Hadfield and Daniel Villiger www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Interesting take ... hmmm. In Defense of AI as an ‘Author’ Ethical Implications for Scientific Authors, Reviewers, Editors, and Publishing Policies - Head and Neck Pathology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“If we don’t get prepared, the next crisis will hit us in the same way”: COVID-19 lessons learnt and its policy implications jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

New 🚨 JME Practical Bioethics: "A defense of terminating a forced pregnancy as non-destructively as possible" - by M. Häyry & A. Sukenick ... Revisiting a classic. What did Thomson's famous defense of abortion (1971) really show, and what does it mean for us today? jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

Artificial intelligence and medical futility - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New 🚨 JME Practical Bioethics: "A defense of terminating a forced pregnancy as non-destructively as possible" - by M. Häyry & A. Sukenick ... Revisiting a classic. What did Thomson's famous defense of abortion (1971) really show, and what does it mean for us today? jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

“If we don’t get prepared, the next crisis will hit us in the same way”: COVID-19 lessons learnt and its policy implications jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

This is a really interesting read on LLMs as “co-authors”. Lots of food for thought!

LLMs as Co-Authors: The Argument from Fairness www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Explaining the Wrongs of Undisclosed LLM Use: Reply to Sahebi and Montefiore - Philosophy & Technology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Agents, Alignment, and the Many Faces of Autonomy - Minds and Machines link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I discovered today that a journal published the low-res versions of graphs that were embedded in the submitted .docx file - despite me spotting the problem during proofs and a providing hi-res versions. Frustrating but not terribly surprising

I think, in the end, that the various Reasons people give for why it's good and fine that they are very aggro on this here internet and actually this is upholding the true and the good and the beautiful are always a bit less persuasive than: no you're not, you're just being weirdly mean, stop it.

A ban on social media for under 16s would likely require *everyone* to prove their age in order to use social media platforms, which means handing biometric data over to commercial tech companies. www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...

New paper 🚨 Love and Cause: When is Biomedically Enhanced Love Desirable? -- led by the wonderful Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė www.researchgate.net/publication/...

First case of AI glasses cheating caught in NTU entrance exams - Taipei Times www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...

New preprint 🚨 A Pro Tanto Case for (Sometimes) Listing LLMs as Coauthors on Academic Papers: The Argument from Fairness - led by Clint Hurshman, with Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Julian Savulescu, and me. LINK: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Analyzing the concept of independence in psychedelic research www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Global health ethics in international collaborative research during policy transition: what can we learn from the proposed newborn hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint 🚨 Mapping Human and AI Contributions Across Stages of Academic Writing: A Preliminary LLM-based Method - by myself and Sebastian Porsdam Mann. Feedback on our method welcome. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Global health ethics in international collaborative research during policy transition: what can we learn from the proposed newborn hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you work in phil science and never sent your paper to a generalist journal (because worry your readership isn’t there), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research intends to bring more Phil science to its pages, and I have just joined as one of the editors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Analyzing the concept of independence in psychedelic research www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Job opportunity! 🚨 Come work with me in Singapore. Up to *4.5 years* Research Fellow position in experimental bioethics, moral psychology and PPIE, supervised by me - in our wonderful Centre at the National University of Singapore. Apply here: careers.nus.edu.sg/job/Research...

Market approval and the right to health: a human rights perspective on MDMA-assisted therapy jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

Really thoughtful review of the Neuroethics book. Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė & Brian D. Earp describe it as “nuanced, insightful and well-considered”—though they also raise some interesting concerns, well-captured by their review’s clever title. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Artificial intelligence policies in bioethics and health humanities: a comparative analysis of publishers and journals - BMC Medical Ethics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

AI Disclosure Without Protection: A Governance Gap in Scholarly Peer Review www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...

(PDF) When combinations of humans and AI are useful: A systematic review and meta-analysis www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Diagnostic momentum and the donor label: ethical concerns in expanding donation after circulatory death jmepb.bmj.com/content/1/1/...

MrBeast Ethics: Ethics of online health-related philanthrotainment jmepb.bmj.com/content/1/1/...

Eugenics reconsidered: why non-Western histories matter for bioethical governance jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...