A humanities degree for a STEM world. This concentration prepares students to write and reason in a world increasingly driven by computers and data, as well as understand the ethical implications of ...

No one expects a keyboard, a hammer or a scalpel to have built-in ethical standards that guide its work. Only the users of such tools can chart those paths. But artificial intelligence (AI) — the term ...

NH copy Purchased with funds gifted by Eva and Ira Pell in support of the study of biodiversity at the Smithsonian. Contents Foreword / Rush Holt and Jeanne Braha -- Introduction to this book / ...

Andy Z. Wang ’23, an Associate News Editor, is a Social Studies and Philosophy concentrator in Winthrop House. His column, ‘Cogito, Clicko Sum," runs on triweekly Wednesdays. Harvard is “in dire need” ...

This activity was supported by Contract No. HHSP233201400020B/HHSP23337045 with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Greenwall Foundation, Grant No. 15 ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

What would happen if human brain cells were injected into primates. such as monkeys or apes? Scientists are now researching that question, as well as the ethics of the possibility of cognitive ...

Eldardiry and her team will develop practical competencies that enable students to translate ethical principles into concrete decision-making in artificial intellingence system design. Recently, she ...

Now, in the wake of fake news and other troubles at tech companies, universities that helped produce some of Silicon Valley’s top technologists are hustling to bring a more medicine-like morality to ...

Dr. Tom Powers is Associate Professor in Philosophy and the founding director of the Center for Science, Ethics & Public Policy. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, ...