Ethics

How would the ability to genetically customize children change society? Sci-fi author Eugene Clark explores the future on our horizon in Volume I of the “Genetic Pressure” series.

The attack on the Capitol forces us to confront an existential question about privacy.

The AI constitution can mean the difference between war and peace—or total extinction.

Porcine gene edits may allow such transplants without rejection.

There’s a fortune to be made in data and silicon, and everyone is out for their share. Artificial intelligence is this century’s gold rush. Its promises scintillate in them there […]

Eastern traditions have complex views on how karma affects your life.

Students who think the world is just cheat less, but they need to experience justice to feel that way.

Price gouging is prohibited in 34 US states and Washington D.C. But two scholars ask whether that’s the way it should be.

Should pharmaceutical companies pay people for their plasma? Here’s why paid plasma is a hot ethical issue.

Facing a shortage of medical resources, doctors in the U.S. may have to make difficult moral decisions over how to allocate care.

Those who have experienced amputations often wonder what happened to their limb after surgery.

To prevent torturous experiments on organoids, some are calling for clearer definitions of consciousness.

The private sector may need the Outer Space Treaty to be updated before it can make any claims to celestial bodies or their resources.

The fourth wave of the Industrial Revolution is here. If change is led by the right people, we will have ethical machines, says Intel’s Lama Nachman.

The question is no longer “can we” but “should we” edit human embryos.

It may be an uncomfortable thing to do, but creating a will can save your loved ones a lot of headaches after you’re gone.

The first human-monkey hybrid has allegedly been created in a Chinese lab.

The premier hospitals tend to have the most superbugs — they also have the best experts.

How many abortions are actually performed? Survey dat reveal the complexity in the raging debate.

Why an early Facebook investor is now Facebook’s biggest critic.

This is how data harvesting really works. You’re not going to like it.

Good bacteria are our friends. We need to protect them.

Where is your data now? Follow the money.

Quarantines are worth the trouble to keep the next pandemic at bay but they need to be applied intelligently.

When you’re in a midlife crisis, success can seem like failure. 

Why is it that people say Ayn Rand isn’t a “real” philosopher? 

Here’s the psychology that explains why many economists prefer to be narrowly right yet broadly wrong (they suffer from professional “rigor distortis”).

Western conventional wisdom about animal ethics is that killing an animal is not the problem; the problem is making the animal suffer. 

Here’s why your brain’s biases are a win for fake news, and a pay day for Facebook.

Social observers are particularly attuned to braggadocio. What do you think of a person who claims to be a better driver, performer or lover than average? Is this person better […]