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15Should we embrace “Big Sister”? Smart speakers as a means to combat intimate partner violenceEthics and Information Technology 25 (4): 1-13. 2023.It is estimated that one in three women experience intimate partner violence (IPV) across the course of their life. The popular uptake of “smart speakers” powered by sophisticated AI means that surveillance of the domestic environment is increasingly possible. Correspondingly, there are various proposals to use smart speakers to detect or report IPV. In this paper, we clarify what might be possible when it comes to combatting IPV using existing or near-term technology and also begin the project …Read more
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15Digital Humans to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation: Ethics Concerns and Policy RecommendationsHastings Center Report 54 (1): 7-12. 2024.Social isolation and loneliness are growing concerns around the globe that put people at increased risk of disease and early death. One much‐touted approach to addressing them is deploying artificially intelligent agents to serve as companions for socially isolated and lonely people. Focusing on digital humans, we consider evidence and ethical arguments for and against this approach. We set forth and defend public health policies that respond to concerns about replacing humans, establishing infe…Read more
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15The Dead Donor Rule and Means-End Reasoning - A Reply to NapierCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (1): 141-146. 2012.
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9A military-philosophical complex: Steven Umbrello: Designed for death: controlling killer robots. Budapest: Trivent Publications, 2022, 221 pp, €44 PB (review)Metascience 32 (3): 421-424. 2023.
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3Should the use of adaptive machine learning systems in medicine be classified as research?American Journal of Bioethics 1-12. forthcoming.A novel advantage of the use of machine learning (ML) systems in medicine is their potential to continue learning from new data after implementation in clinical practice. To date, considerations of the ethical questions raised by the design and use of adaptive machine learning systems in medicine have, for the most part, been confined to discussion of the so-called “update problem,” which concerns how regulators should approach systems whose performance and parameters continue to change even aft…Read more
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2Procreative Beneficence, Obligation, and EugenicsGenomics, Society, and Policy 3 (3): 43-59. 2007.
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Genome Editing, in TimeIn Neal Baer (ed.), The promise and peril of CRISPR, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2024.
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Section I. Understanding the debate. Reason, emotion, and morality : some cautions for the enhancement project / C. A. J. Coady ; Repugnance as performance error : the role of disgust in bioethical intuitions / Joshua May ; Reasons, reflection, and repugnance / Doug McConnell and Jeanette Kennett ; A natural alliance against a common foe? Opponents of enhancement and the social model of disability / Linda Barclay ; Playing God : What is the problem? / John Weckert ; Conservative and critical morality in debate about reproductive technologies / John McMillan ; Human enhancement : conceptual clarity and moral significance / Chris Gyngell and Michael J. Selgelid ; Human enhancement for whom? (review)In Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu, C. A. J. Coady, Alberto Giubilini & Sagar Sanyal (eds.), The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate, Oxford University Press. 2016.
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
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Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |