New submission format at SBE: “Replications as Registered Reports” link.springer.com/journal/1118... You can get "in-principle acceptance" before data collection even begins; final paper gets published regardless the results, if the study is conducted rigorously. #EconSky

How chasing a high-impact publication nearly broke me www.science.org/content/arti...

Standardizing Reporting of Pediatric Assent in Clinical Trials publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

How AI could predict your preferences at the end of life - ABC listen www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Abstract: In this talk I will consider the question of whether we are in some sense justified a priori in believing certain propositions – specifically, explicit definitions, implicit definitions, and fundamental principles of belief revision.

The Paradox of Ethical AI-Assisted Research - Journal of Academic Ethics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The risk of more reliable AI substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Problems in Defining Medicalised FGM and Proposed Solutions www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I feel this lecture captures some key points I've been trying to make over the years: "The @WHO position on child genital cutting: scientifically flawed, ethically incoherent" - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqzz...

New Paper 🚨 Analyzing the Concept of Independence in Psychedelic Research by @Katherin_Chg @ExistWell @r_ehrenkranz @briandavidearp @eddietalksdrugs Some argue psychedelic researchers are biased “true believers” and call for “independent” research - but what does that mean? In this paper… 1/

Are folks able to access the full PDF of this article here? “On Whether Sex Is Binary” www.researchgate.net/publication/...

DailyDilemmas: Revealing Value Preferences of LLMs with Quandaries of Daily Life arxiv.org/abs/2410.02683

Religious tradition, child safety and the law on circumcision | Letters www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

New Paper 🚨 Global Bioethics Bulletin: dispatches on climate justice. This is part of a new series at JME Practical Bioethics written by our regional editors, where we take a global look at a pressing ethical issue Link below

New Paper 🚨 Human Brain Organoids and Stakeholders’ Attitudes: Evidence, Gaps, and Governance In this paper, we identify three priority areas for future ethical and policy discussions. Read more through the link below:

New paper 🚨 US Laws Restricting Medical Care for Transgender Minors: Statutory Inconsistencies Involving Intersex and Other Individuals jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New paper 🚨 Chat-IRB for LMICs: An Opportunity For Ethics Review Capacity-building And Protection Against Ethics Dumping, IRB Shopping, And Other Exploitative Research Practices-A Response To Moodley et al www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

New Paper 🚨 The Sorrows of Young Chatbot Users: Harm and Responsibility in Human-AI Relationships by Cristina Voinea, Christopher Register, Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Julian Savulescu, and myself. ** When are companies liable for user self-harm? We argue...1/

Using artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfakes to deceive victims: the need to rethink current romance fraud prevention messaging - Crime Prevention and Community Safety link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Guidelines needed for the use of AI in the preparation or review of IRB, IBC, and IACUC applications www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk link.springer.com/article/10.3... My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

Coming soon: my new book *The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction*. More info - including three very generous blurbs from @davidgunkel.bsky.social, @briandavidearp.bsky.social, & Crystal L'Hote, PhD - here: hackettpublishing.com/new-forthcom... #aiethics #philosophy

Latest research in @JME_BMJ Practical Bioethics - "Autonomy, oppression and genetic enhancements" by Sinead Prince - free and open access here jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/1/...

Ideological bias in the production of research findings www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Is there such a thing as a retreat where you go and learn how to become a pro at time management and they sort out your infinite work projects and send you on your way all calm and focused? If not, can someone invent that? (I can't because I have a brain full of ideas and no way of corralling them.)

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

Welcome to the ➡️ Global Bioethics Bulletin, a recurring series in JME Practical Bioethics of concise, region-­led dispatches on themes of global ethical importance. 🌎 jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/1/...

New paper 🚨 "On Whether Sex Is Binary" - by myself, Morgan Carpenter, and Sebastian Porsdam Mann. It looks like the publisher has temporarily made this open access: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Wow 😱 @ChatGPTapp from @OpenAI just repeatedly denied that Maria Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner -- also Venezuelan opposition leader -- actually won the Nobel Peace Prize, despite multiple corrections, with sources, from me (screenshots below) 1/

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...

New 🚨 in Technology in Society: "Personalizing AI Art Boosts Credit, Not Beauty" - led by Maryam Khan www.researchgate.net/publication/...

You know how AI is supposed to be making us stupider, deskilling us, making us forget how to write—and thus, how to think—and all that? I think in some ways it is having the opposite effect, at least on me, as a reader and editor. I explain why in this new post: open.substack.com/pub/briandav...

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

🚨 Digital Life Models and the Genomic Knowledge Paradox: A Proposal for AI-Assisted Reflection in Genetic Decision-Making. Led by Serene Ong. You can’t know if you’ll want genetic risk info until after you get it. Could “digital life models” help? www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The latest from JME Practical Bioethics: ‘Beat dementia’: the ethical risks of a triumphalist slogan jmepb.bmj.com/content/1/1/...

AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

New Paper 🚨 "Are Psychedelics Ethically Exceptional After All? Some Further Reflections" by @Katherine_Chg, @ExistWell (David B. Yaden), and Kyle Patch in @bioethics_net

If consent under third-party coercion is voluntary, we should rethink informed consent jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

Thoughts on this? ➡️Forget Plagiarism: It's Originality, Utility, and Contribution That Matter in Academia Now onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Informed consent under coercion: the limits of the interpersonal justification jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

What Should a Public Health Approach to Sleep Look Like? journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/what...

🚨 Digital Life Models and the Genomic Knowledge Paradox: A Proposal for AI-Assisted Reflection in Genetic Decision-Making. Led by Serene Ong. You can’t know if you’ll want genetic risk info until after you get it. Could “digital life models” help? www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🚨 Is Consent-GPT valid? Public attitudes to generative AI use in surgical consent. UK study: AI-supported surgical consent is seen as valid, but trusted and liked less than human-led consent—even with identical information. Hybrid AI + human models may work best. www.academia.edu/145604807/Is...

Impartial Beneficence Predicts Greater and More Uniform Concern for Others Across Social Relationships 
🚨Recent work by Brian D. Earp, Killian L. McLoughlin, Mina Caraccio, Rachel Calcott, Joshua Rottman, Margaret S. Clark & Molly J. Crockett

Machine+Behavior is back! Pls spread the word. 18-19 May Submission 8 Feb Speakers include: Tom Griffiths, Allan Dafoe, Thore Graepel, Laura Weidinger, Kinga Makovi, @baronca.bsky.social, @drkatedevlin.bsky.social, Emilio Calvano, Brian D. Earp, Christopher Summerfield machinebehavior.science

What are the ethics of Mr Beast-style “philanthrotainment” -? Read the latest in @JME_BMJ Practical Bioethics, showcasing the broader scope of the new journal jmepb.bmj.com/content/1/1/...

Proud of this new piece 🚨 in @NatMachIntell, with S. Porsdam Mann, @JulianJKoplin & @HaotianYuan0630 - who is still in high school! ➡️ "LLMs in Scholarly Writing Pose a Provenance Problem" - when LLM's 'fill in the gaps' in your thinking with another's uncredited ideas. Preview/link ⬇️.

Here is the link, with a preview of the article below www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Not my case, but I agree that there are better and worse #AI tools for scholarly writing and better ways to use #LLMs than adopting their output without further reflection and literature review.