ethics

When you take 800,000 human brain cells, wire them into a biological hybrid computer chip, and demonstrate that it can learn faster than neural networks, people have questions. We speak to Dr. Brett Kagan, Chief Scientific Officer at Cortical Labs.

With AI already a big part of everyday life and its involvement only bound to increase, researchers at Duke University have asked children how they think we should treat intelligent technology.

​The human brain remains an enigma, but neuroscience is beginning to unravel its secrets. To help us navigate the murky waters of peering into the human mind, researchers from Switzerland have proposed four new human rights relating to limitations on how the brain should be read or manipulated.

With the speed that AI is advancing, hundreds of AI and robotics researchers have compiled the Asilomar AI Principles, a list of 23 principles, priorities and precautions that should guide our development of artificial intelligence to ensure it’s safe, ethical and beneficial.

​In the wake of Peter Cushing's digital resurrection in "Star Wars: Rogue One" debate is once again raging around the ethics of re-purposing the images of long dead actors. How do we deal with the murky legal and ethical waters surrounding this discomforting territory?

Fairphone, a smartphone produced with social values in mind, has reached its crowdfunding goal and is slated to deliver its first batch in October.