Joel Michael Reynolds writes: As a bioethicist who investigates how cultural and societal values impact medical care, I consider the position of anti-vaxxers to be morally indefensible. Here are three reasons why
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How Many Kids Should I Have?: The Morality of Having a Larger FamilyDecember 4, 2018 |
As talks of climate change and overpopulation loom, it’s a question popping up more and more frequently. So, Fatherly asked four experts in various fields, including our Travis Rieder, to weigh in.
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Ethical RoboticsNovember 2, 2018 |
Beginning to Program Asimov’s First Law. Roboticists at the Applied Physics Laboratory teamed up with ethicists from the Berman Institute to start the work of creating robots that can behave with an ethical code.
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It’s Westworld. What’s Wrong With Cruelty to Robots?April 23, 2018 |
Suppose we had robots perfectly identical to men, women and children and we were permitted by law to interact with them in any way we pleased. How would you treat them?
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Pulling Out of the Paris Agreement is UnconscionableJune 2, 2017 |
Our Travis Rieder explores why withdrawing from the agreement itself matters morally
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Is It Ethical to Swallow a Morality Pill?April 6, 2017 |
Imagine a pill that could make you a more “moral” person. Would you take it? Today, leading scientists are debating the ethics of just that — a pill that improves morality
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NIH May Fund Human-Animal Stem Cell ResearchAugust 5, 2016 |
Jeffrey P. Kahn, the director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, points to two looming ethical issues
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The Evolution of AI: Can Morality be Programmed?July 12, 2016 |
Our artificial intelligence systems are advancing at a remarkable rate, and though it will be some time before we have human-like synthetic intelligence, it makes sense to begin working on programming morality now. And researchers at Duke University are already well on their way
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