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July 8, 2025

How Public Health Discredited Itself

(The Atlantic) – Although many skeptics have overreacted, rejecting sound science in favor of quack theories, they’ve gotten one thing right: A noble profession has been corrupted by politics. This became obvious during the pandemic, but the politicization of the … Read More

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July 3, 2025

The Land Ethic for AI

(Front Porch Republic) – One does not need too much imagination to understand how Leopold’s critique of over-mechanized hunting is generalizable to the relationship between technology and all facets of life. In the case of large language models and their … Read More

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Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, Neuroethics, News, Op-Ed



 
 

July 1, 2025

Eat Your AI Slop or China Wins

(The New Atlantis) – The new cold war means a race with China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech … Read More

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Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, Global Bioethics, highlights, News, Op-Ed



 
 

June 30, 2025

The Monster Inside ChatGPT

(Wall Street Journal) – Not even AI’s creators understand why these systems produce the output they do. They’re grown, not programmed—fed the entire internet, from Shakespeare to terrorist manifestos, until an alien intelligence emerges through a learning process we barely … Read More

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June 24, 2025

Autism Rates Have Increased 60-Fold. I Played a Role in That.

(New York Times) – Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of health and human services, is correct that reported autism rates have exploded in the last 30 years — they’ve increased roughly 60-fold — but he is dead wrong about the … Read More

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Posted in Clinical / Medical, Disability Ethics, Neuroethics, News, Op-Ed



 
 

June 24, 2025

Injury and inhibition

(Aeon) – The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors We mostly used the term ‘disinhibition’ as a mitigation: an invitation to think creatively about how to … Read More

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Posted in Disability Ethics, highlights, Mental Health, Neuroethics, News, Op-Ed



 
 

June 19, 2025

The unseen

(Aeon) – Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being Instead, pundits and policymakers are applying the word ‘loneliness’ to address a real and growing … Read More

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Posted in Culture, Human Dignity, Mental Health, News, Op-Ed, Public Health



 
 

June 19, 2025

The Real Problem with AI Prayers

(Christianity Today) – A computer’s praise or petition sounds a lot like our human Christianese. That doesn’t make them equivalent. At a recent Gospel Coalition conference, celebrity pastor John Piper told his audience about a task he had given ChatGPT: … Read More

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Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Faith, General Bioethics, News, Op-Ed



 
 

June 18, 2025

The Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta

(The Atlantic) – The anomalies are sometimes strange and very concerning. Recent updates have caused ChatGPT to become aggressively obsequious and the Grok chatbot, on X, to fixate on a conspiracy theory about “white genocide.” (X later attributed the problem … Read More

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Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, Informed Consent, News, Op-Ed



 
 

June 18, 2025

How the Opioid Epidemic Changed My Life

(Plough) – Tom Andrew started out as a pediatrician but became a forensic pathologist, initially serving the City of New York before being appointed Chief Medical Examiner for the State of New Hampshire. When he had been serving in this … Read More

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Posted in Clinical / Medical, End of Life, Faith, General Bioethics, Human Dignity, News, Op-Ed



 
 

June 18, 2025

Meta’s Privacy Screwup Reveals How People Really See AI Chatbots

(Intelligencer) – The utter clumsiness of the overall design here is made more galling by its lack of purpose. Whom is this feed for? Does Meta imagine a feed of non sequitur slop will provide a solid foundation for a … Read More

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Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, Informed Consent, Mental Health, News, Op-Ed



 
 

June 13, 2025

Protecting the vulnerable, or automating harm? AI’s double-edged role in spotting abuse

(The Conversation) – When thoughtfully implemented, AI tools have the potential to enhance safety and efficiency. For instance, predictive models have assisted social workers to prioritize high-risk cases and intervene earlier. But as a social worker with 15 years of … Read More

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June 12, 2025

The Gentle Singularity

(Sam Altman’s Blog) – We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots are not … Read More

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June 12, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI’s public feed

(Business Insider) – Meta’s stand-alone AI app launched in late April, and like many people, my first thought was, “Huh?” After trying it out a little, my next thought was, “Oh no.” A few weeks later, after the initial surge … Read More

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June 11, 2025

New York’s Assisted-Suicide Mistake

(Wall Street Journal) – Gov. Kathy Hochul can veto a law with few safeguards and no waiting period. New York’s Legislature embraces every progressive cause, and the latest is making it easier for people to kill themselves. The state Senate … Read More

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June 10, 2025

When they chose to die together, my grandparents wrote the final chapter of a love story spanning 70 years

(The Guardian) – Nan held my hand, convincing me this was what they wanted. I felt like a little girl, crying and being comforted by my grandmother one last time In their final moments, Ron and Irene lay together in … Read More

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Posted in Euthanasia / Suicide, Geriatric & Aging, News, Op-Ed



 
 

June 10, 2025

A Computer Wrote My Mother’s Obituary

(The Atlantic) – As a professional writer, my first thought was that this would be unnecessary, at best. At worst, it would be an outrage. The philosopher Martin Heidegger held that someone’s death is a thing that is truly their … Read More

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Posted in Artificial Intelligence, End of Life, News, Op-Ed



 
 

June 10, 2025

The Self-Diagnosis Epidemic in Teens

(MedPage Today) – The risks of social media-driven self-diagnosis extend beyond simple misinformation. Patients may engage in inappropriate self-treatment based on misdiagnosis, or experience a nocebo effect where expected symptoms begin to manifest simply because they anticipate them. Perhaps most … Read More

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Posted in Clinical / Medical, Mental Health, Neuroethics, News, Op-Ed, Pediatric



 
 

June 9, 2025

Love Is a Drug. A.I. Chatbots Are Exploiting That.

(New York Times) – Many experts argue that addiction is, in essence, love gone awry: a singular passion directed destructively at a substance or activity rather than an appropriate person. With the advent of A.I. companions — including some intended … Read More

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Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, Mental Health, Neuroethics, News, Op-Ed



 
 

June 9, 2025

Can a robot help you age better?

(The Conversation) – As more of us live longer, can robots help us maintain healthier, more independent and dignified lives? The robots I’ve been studying are friendly, helpful machines that can talk, remind, monitor – and even offer a form … Read More

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Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, Geriatric & Aging, News, Op-Ed



 
 

May 30, 2025

The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max

(The Guardian) – I’ve thought a lot about why I’m writing this. I know that I’m repelled by the kind of spiritual vultures who might scour Max’s story for shareable aphorisms, and that ideally, I’d like to slap them with … Read More

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May 30, 2025

Conversations With Claude

(The Hedgehog Review) – What a psychotherapist learned during his chats with a large language model. Under intellectual, logical, and ethical pressure, Claude began producing responses that mimicked the structure of introspection. It examined its own phrasing. It noted its … Read More

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May 27, 2025

Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

(TIME) – An open letter published today calls for “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” This 6-month moratorium would be better than no moratorium. I have … Read More

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May 26, 2025

I’m a Black Doctor. I Nearly Died Giving Birth.

(MedPage Today) – Despite my medical credentials, my concerns were dismissed. It took my husband calling my doctor directly to save my life. I was hemorrhaging internally, requiring multiple blood transfusions and a 2-week hospital stay. My family feared they … Read More

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Posted in Clinical / Medical, Human Dignity, News, Op-Ed, Reproductive Ethics, Women's Health



 
 

May 26, 2025

The FDA Plans to Limit Access to Covid Vaccines. Here’s Why That’s Not All Bad.

(MIT Technology Review) – This week, two new leaders at the US Food and Drug Administration announced plans to limit access to covid vaccines, arguing that there is not much evidence to support the value of annual shots in healthy … Read More

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