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It’s the AI’s fault, not mine: Mind perception increases blame attribution to AI journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🚨Does the university need an “arts and crafts” movement in response to generative AI? An interesting provocation by Tim Daly in the latest issue of JMEPB jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

🚨 New paper - we reply comprehensively to our critics: "The Enduring Promise of Personalising Patient Preference Prediction"- Neuroethics - OPEN ACCESS link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ethical perspectives of obstetricians and gynecologists on induced abortion and conscientious objection in Türkiye: a phenomenological study - BMC Medical Ethics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Blogs: U.S. Circumcision Lawsuit Advances as Doctors Behind Policy Backtrack blogs.timesofisrael.com/u-s-circumci...

New letter published in JMEPB - by Charbel Saad - Elective scarification and the limits of surgical provision jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/... ... curious to hear people's thoughts!

New editorial, led by Shalom Chalson for forthcoming special e-issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics on #AI 🚨 Ethics of AI in medicine: how smarter systems lead to tougher judgments www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Why the Current Model of Academic Publishing Is Ethically Flawed—and What We Can Do to Change It | Journal of Scholarly Publishing

When Xavier Rodriguez, a federal judge in Texas, prepares for a hearing, he usually begins by turning to AI. Judges say they’re aware of the risks, even as some experts worry that AI’s unreliability could compromise their authority.

Virtual reality and agential moral enhancement - Ethics and Information Technology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What even are AI-generated responsibility gaps? - AI and Ethics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Moral AI in medical decision-making jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/... -- first paper of the latest issue of JMEPB, with a reply by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong et al. jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

Haha well played

I asked A.I. to complete my novel using my own writing style and it did my laundry, went shopping, cleaned the kitchen and spent the rest of the day dicking around online.

I am about halfway through the first volume of Gibbon and guys, it’s not looking good for the Roman Empire

The Claude Code leak makes clear the extent to which the wrapping around the “LLM” itself does so much heavy lifting. The stochastic flock starts a murmuration in these places, which are also Anthropic’s way of constraining it. The flock escapes the aviary when systems interact. ⬇️

Recalibrating academic expertise in the age of generative AI www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

A first. For those without access to, here’s another write up with no paywall. www.iflscience.com/your-penis-h...

To complement the earlier post about the clitoral nerve mapping study, I just noticed this has come out: Surprising male G-spot found in most detailed study of the penis yet www.newscientist.com/article/2520...

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The Academic Publishing System’s Most Pointless Bottleneck academeblog.org/2026/03/13/t...

How can junior doctors safeguard their development as clinicians in the age of AI? jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/1/...

New 🚨 "Psychedelics Are Still Not Ethically Exceptional: Rebutting Recent Claims of Uniqueness" -- new work forthcoming in Neuroethics by myself, Katherine Cheung, and David Yaden. Part of a scholarly exchange with our friend and colleague Daniel Villiger. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New 🚨 A Substantial Human Contribution: Do We Deserve to be Authors of This Essay? A meta-experiment by me, AS Guernon & S Porsdam Mann www.researchgate.net/publication/... -- we wrote this using an LLM in ~48 hours and explore whether we made a substantial enough contribution to count as authors.

Liberals and Conservatives See Different Victims: Moral Disagreement Is Explained by Different Assumptions of Vulnerability - 2026

Wow, OpenAI's ChatGPT just repeatedly denied that Maria Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, despite multiple corrections from me, with sources... open.substack.com/pub/briandav...

Ethical argument in favour of studying table honey in contemporary wound care jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/1/...

Some meta-reflections on AI-assisted writing briandavidearp.substack.com/p/some-meta-...

The science-humanities divide in LLM appreciation - on writing, thinking, and the ego of authorship briandavidearp.substack.com/p/is-philoso...

Reimbursement policy decisions for bilateral cochlear implantation in adults: how should they be evaluated? jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/1/...

Analyzing the Ethical Logic of Six Large Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2501.08951

Interesting piece here, citing among other folk the excellent @danwphilosophy.bsky.social

What counts as mutilation—and who should decide? Disrupting dominant discourses on genital cutting and modification www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Recent from Josh KNobe: "Conflicting Intuitions" published in Ergo journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

Yes it’s a classic and well worth the read www.ditext.com/hare/1979b.p...

The Right to Concentrate - Neuroethics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Call for abstracts! We're hosting 🚨 Neuroethics Asia 2026 - Centre for Biomedical Ethics – National University of Singapore - medicine.nus.edu.sg/cbme/neuroet...

👀 #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics

When ELIZA meets therapists: A Turing test for the heart and mind www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Artificial Intelligence is (Only) a Useful Tool to Assist with Peer Review jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/1/...

Circumcision classed as potentially harmful practice in new CPS guidance www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

New in JME Practical Bioethics - "Toward an ethics of vigilance in public health" by Jamie Webb jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/1/...

New in @JME_BMJ Practical Bioethics: Duties to protect oneself from loneliness - by Bouke de Vries jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/1/... - Do we have a duty to protect ourselves from loneliness?

Breaking the fourth wall of philanthropy jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/1/...

And now it's ~*officially*~ typset! (Though I have to admit, I think my typsetting is prettier. What's with the double columns?!) doi.org/10.1111/phpr...

UK health official recuses himself from puberty blockers trial after bias claims www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Seven Desiderata for Ethical Frameworks for AI Mental Health Agents www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This piece by psychologist/philosopher Brian Earp is about the differing attitudes toward AI in psychology vs. philosophy In psych, one common attitude is; The goal is to get the right answer to fundamental questions in psychology. If AI helps us do that, well then, all the better… 1/