As fictional inventors make terrible choices on the big screen, real-world tech innovators can learn from their example how not to make the same kinds of ethical mistakes.
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Steinhoff was the darling of investors, asset managers, analysts and financial journalists. But its success was built on shaky foundations.
It's easy to get excited about the potential for robots to help care for the sick, injured and elderly, but we need the right regulations in place to deal with issues as they emerge.
To grasp how extraordinary evils are often committed by ordinary people, we need to consider how we define evil, and most importantly, whom we consider to be the agents of evil.
A new study provides fascinating data on how people prioritise who to save in hypothetical driverless car crashes. But it takes more than just numbers to really create ethical machines.
If those who survive are the fittest, does that also make them the best? And if so, is engineering 'better' babies just evolution, or another step in a long history of eugenics?
You have to draw an ethical line somewhere so if you were vegan, would you still eat avocados?
Some careful reasoning shows that comparing abortion with contract murder equates two acts that are far from obviously morally equivalent.
The view that sex-selective abortion is unethical is widely shared. But those who propose to use the law to prevent it need to supply a clear, compelling moral justification.
Since 2012, more than 120 of Britain’s universities, research institutions and pharmaceutical companies have signed a public pledge committing them to greater openness in their animal research programs.
Several companies are trying to develop life extension methods that could enable some people to live far longer. There are some ethical dilemmas.
Researchers who fly in and out of a developing country only for research samples, with little involvement of local scientists, are practising helicopter research.
Technology companies have immense power over our lives. But why are so many of their employees and others concerned about the ethics of their behaviour?
Large-scale data collection and analysis can target consumer behaviour. Faced with the risk of drifts, transparency and ethics of algorithms become paramount.
Technological professionals are the first, and last, lines of defense against the misuse of technology.
You can be a better tourist this summer. Here's how.
After scandals or sea changes make the association with certain names too awkward, universities, museums and other nonprofits usually distance themselves. But not always.
The court carefully considered what the word 'emoluments' meant at the time the Constitution was drafted.
A philosopher's take on the ethics of products that allow parents to lighten the skin colour of their unborn baby.
Some philosophers believe that a very long life could easily become boring.
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & SocioTechnical Studies, Griffith University
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Associate Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Research Scholar at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
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ARC Future Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Ethics, Centre For Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics (CAPPE), Charles Sturt University
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Ken Harvey is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Lecturer, Australian National University
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Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Postgraduate Research Student, T.C. Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, St George's, University of London
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Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
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