bioethics
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Experts Sign Open Letter Slamming Europe’s Proposal To Recognise Robots As Legal Persons
Over 150 experts in AI, robotics, commerce, law and ethics from 14 countries have signed an open letter denouncing the European Parliament’s proposal to grant personhood status to intelligent machines. The EU says the measure will make it easier to figure out who’s liable when robots screw up or go rogue, but critics say it’s…
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Nitrogen Gas Is Now The Execution Method Of Choice In Oklahoma
The United States is dealing with a drug shortage – a legal injection drug shortage, that is. In response, states where capital punishment is still practiced are having to come up with new ways of killing people. Earlier this week, Oklahoma announced that it will start using nitrogen gas for all its executions moving forward,…
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A Baby Conceived In 1992 Was Born Just Last Month
Wrap your head around this one: On November 25, 2017 a healthy baby girl was born to a 26-year-old mother in Tennessee – but the embryo that would later result in the baby was conceived and cryogenically frozen in 1992. It’s now considered the oldest known frozen embryo to result in a successful birth.
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New Brain Technologies Could Lead To Terrifying Invasions Of Privacy, Warn Scientists
Image: Warner Brothers Imagine for a minute that you survive a terrible accident, and lose function of your right arm. You receive a brain implant able to interpret your brain’s neural activity and reroute commands to a robotic arm. Then one day, someone hacks that chip, sending malicious commands to the robotic arm. It’s a…