What we want from AI systems depends on the kind of relationships they are trying to simulate.
- Associate Director, Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy, University of Oxford
Why ‘unconstitutional’ anti-FGM law was set on a collision course with US supreme law.
‘Unconstitutional’ US anti-FGM law shows urgent need to prevent all child genital cutting
There are some striking physical and symbolic similarities.
Current conversion therapies can’t effectively switch someone’s sexual orientation. But there could be a time down the road when neuroscience can do what they can’t. Where does that leave gay rights?
In 1863, Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, “Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear – and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.” According to a recent experiment…
Non-therapeutic circumcision of male infants and boys has always been a controversial issue – and never has opinion been more polarised. In the United States, medical authorities have just overturned…
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