Sedlakova and Trachsel (2023) discuss the ethical concerns associated with employing what they term conversational artificial intelligence as therapist substitutes. Given their apprehensions, they...

Intellectual property (IP) offices and courts around the world are debating whether machines are similar enough to humans in terms of their consciousness and creativity to be eligible for inventors...

Fake news is a scourge within modern society, brought about by foreign powers amplifying messages throughout the recently constructed echo chambers of social media and exacerbated by the lack of co...

Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 89-92.

Professors Hildt (2023), Shepherd (2023), and Zilio and Lavazza (2023) jointly considered the ethical and philosophical implications of acknowledging non-human (e.g., machine) consciousness. Althou...

Susser and Cabrera (2024) assess the role of bespoke neuro-privacy regulations including the creation of a novel right to mental privacy. They argue that focusing on what distinguishes mental priva...

Volume 19, Issue 5, May 2019, Page 78-80.

Wiggins and Wilbanks (2019) raise a number of interesting concerns vis-à-vis citizen science and research. However, one area of innovation in citizen science that has seen significant advancements...

The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 11, Page 39-41, November 2011.

Volume 19, Issue 11, November 2019, Page 45-47.

Blumenthal-Barby (2024) argues for the discarding of the longstanding standard personhood criteria of bioethicists in assessing the ethical status of new and innovative human-like systems in favor...

Bioconvergence is a growing area within the evolving bioeconomy that seeks out synergistic opportunities at the intersection of engineering and the life sciences (Greenbaum 2023). One example is th...

Buchman et al.'s (2024) paper illuminates a pressing issue concerning the utilization of machine learning (ML) in psychiatric care, shedding light on its potential to exacerbate stigma and social d...

The brain is a complex and fascinating organ that plays a crucial role in shaping individuality. Despite years of research, both the physical brain and the metaphysical mind remain mysterious, espe...

Cyberbiosecurity is an emerging field that relates to the intersection of cybersecurity and the clinical and research practice in the biosciences. Beyond the concerns that usually arise in the areas of genomics, this paper highlights ethical concerns raised by cyberbiosecurity in clinical neuroscience. These concerns relate not only to the privacy of the data collected by imaging devices, but also the concern that patients using various stimulatory devices can be harmed by a hacker who either obfuscates the outputs or who (...) interferes with the stimulatory process. The paper offers some suggestions as to how to rectify these increasingly dire concerns. (shrink)

The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 45-47, April 2012.

The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 1, Page 18-20, January 2012.