New preprint 🚨 "Who—or what—should predict an incapacitated patient's wishes? Public attitudes towards AI in substituted medical decision-making" - www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New Preprint 🚨 In Favour of Personalised AI Moral Advisors: Six Design Conditions www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Friends! Josh Knobe & Ivar Hannikainen, dear colleagues & mentors to many of us, are running a v. short study seeking *philosophers* as participants, to see about your intuitions about various famous cases. If you are a philosopher, please take their 5 min survey! moralsciencelab.com/intuitions/

Latest in JME Practical Bioethics 🚨 "Ethics of ‘digital duplicates’ or AI simulations of real people: towards an international consensus" - Now that anyone can easily make an AI "twin" of themselves or others, how should this be ethically evaluated? Open access: jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/3/...

New preprint 🚨Peer Reviewers Should be Allowed to Upload Manuscripts to AI Publishers bar peer reviewers—but not authors or editors—from feeding manuscripts to AI. The main arguments in favour of the ban don't survive scrutiny. LINK: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New preprint 🚨 When Healthcare Decisions Exceed Normal Cognition: AI-Assisted Deliberation and the Future of Informed Consent www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New 🚨 in JME Practical Bioethics: "Beyond fixed categories: dynamic vulnerability and context-sensitive inclusion in the revised Declaration of Helsinki" by Florencia Luna — a response to last year's analysis of the 2024 DoH revision OPEN ACCESS link ➡️ jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/3/...

New 🚨 Issue of JME Practical Bioethics (Vol 2 Issue 3), led by a new instalment of our recurring series: 🌍 Global Bioethics Bulletin 📰 dispatches on access to abortion, featuring our dedicated regional editors and helmed this time by Shizuko Takahashi OPEN ACCESS ➡️ jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

New 🚨 in JME Practical Bioethics: "The Marburg outbreak in Rwanda: a One Health success story?" by Zohar Lederman — the 2024 outbreak has been widely praised as a model response. This paper asks whether that praise is warranted. OPEN ACCESS link ➡️ jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

New 🚨 in JME Practical Bioethics: "Anticipatory antibiotics as preventive medicine: the ethics of proactive clinical trials" by Mardikar Should we wait until an antibiotic stops working before we test what comes next? Mardikar argues argues no. OPEN ACCESS jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

New paper (under review). 🚨 "Against Mandatory Prompt Disclosure in AI-Assisted Scholarship" by myself, Udo Schuklenk, Julian Savulescu, and Sebastian Porsdam Mann buff.ly/8V1W29A

New preprint 🚨 Introducing 'P5' - the paediatric personalised patient preference predictor ☺️ "Paediatric Preference Prediction: The Future of Decision-Making for Children?" By DJC Wilkinson, J Savulescu & me buff.ly/sxmXf6I

🚨 2 CALLS FOR COMMENTARY🚨 1. Death, authorship and generative AI: a call for commentaries jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/... 2. Normalising transparency: an argument for requiring generative AI use declarations in all manuscripts—with a call for commentaries doi.org/10.1136/jme-...

New 🚨 in JME Practical Bioethics: Confucian middle-way perspective on medically assisted suicide, by Wang et al. jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

New 🚨 in JME Practical Bioethics: Eugenics reconsidered: why non-Western histories matter for bioethical governance, by Nakao and Sawai jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

New 🚨 in JME Practical Bioethics, by Milford et al. "Secondary victims of animal experimentation: psychosocial hazards in animal laboratories" jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

New 🚨 JME Practical Bioethics: "A defense of terminating a forced pregnancy as non-destructively as possible" - by M. Häyry & A. Sukenick ... Revisiting a classic. What did Thomson's famous defense of abortion (1971) really show, and what does it mean for us today? jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

New paper 🚨 Love and Cause: When is Biomedically Enhanced Love Desirable? -- led by the wonderful Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New preprint 🚨 A Pro Tanto Case for (Sometimes) Listing LLMs as Coauthors on Academic Papers: The Argument from Fairness - led by Clint Hurshman, with Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Julian Savulescu, and me. LINK: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New preprint 🚨 Mapping Human and AI Contributions Across Stages of Academic Writing: A Preliminary LLM-based Method - by myself and Sebastian Porsdam Mann. Feedback on our method welcome. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Global health ethics in international collaborative research during policy transition: what can we learn from the proposed newborn hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Job opportunity! 🚨 Come work with me in Singapore. Up to *4.5 years* Research Fellow position in experimental bioethics, moral psychology and PPIE, supervised by me - in our wonderful Centre at the National University of Singapore. Apply here: careers.nus.edu.sg/job/Research...

Coming soon, with a call for commentaries @JME Practical Bioethics: "Death, Authorship, Generative AI" -- just as bioethics disaggregated 'death' into brain/circulatory death when technology & practical needs required it, 'author' may also need prising apart... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Looking forward to speaking and learning today ☺️

"Writing is thinking." This phrase went viral recently (from lnkd.in/gYj2c9uE), often quoted in the context of objections to use of AI in drafting academic prose. In Nature Reviews Bioengineering we respond: "Thinking is not only writing." Preview below. Shareable full access link: rdcu.be/fiuYi

Looking forward to speaking at Chulalongkorn Uni in Bangkok today at the bioinformatics, AI and aging conference — I’ll be speaking about the concept of “wellspan” and how it differs from lifespan and even healthspan (based on forthcoming work with Julian Savulescu, Danni Yang, and Guy Kahane)

New 🚨 special issue of Journal of Medical Ethics on the ethics of AI in medicine jme.bmj.com/content/52/e1, with a free editorial led by Shalom Chalson on Ethics of AI in Medicine: How Smarter Systems Lead to Tougher Judgements (jme.bmj.com/content/52/e... ) - check it out!

Memories from the recent excellent HKU workshop on AI agents and companions

Day 2 of HKU workshop on AI agents and companions begins ☺️

Happening today!