Violence Towards Robots
A video circulated online which showed a woman on a night out giving a punt kick…
Ethics
Can harming animals be ethically justified?
Neuralink, the biotechnology company co-founded by Elon Musk is under federal investigation in the United States for…
Ethics of Sunscreen Tests
With summer right around the corner, buying sunscreen is high on everyone’s priority list. The higher…
Artificial Intelligence Chat-bots Might Be Self-Aware: Is Dystopia tha...
Putting the Deus back in Ex Machina. The ethics of advancement in AI programming has been…
How is athlete data being used in professional sport?
The world of professional sport has become a domain of numbers and statistics, as athletes are…
The rise of ethics in AI
As a result of the current AI boom, there has been constant calls for applied ethics…
Science Spotlight: Xenobots
It’s time for Science Spotlight. Each week we talk to an expert about the big breakthroughs…
How Will AI Make Tough Ethical Choices?
Companies like Tesla are invested in a future where fully autonomous cars dominate our roads. But…
Human-Monkey Chimera Embryos
Recently, a team of scientists made headlines around the world after announcing they’d created human-monkey hybrid…
Human-Monkey Hybrids and the Ethics of Gene Editing
Scientists recently produced the first human-monkey chimera and it’s an exciting leap forward in the world…
Communication from the Dead: Posthumous Emails
Death is confusing, we can’t deny that - but imagine receiving an email from someone you…
Too Soon for a Port Arthur Film?
This week, production has begun in Geelong, Victoria, on a film about the Port Arthur massacre.…
