Our latest paper on ethics, animals, and conservation with my co-author Adam Cardilini. #conservation #ethics
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Shannon Vallor's research explores how new technologies, especially AI, robotics & data science, reshape human moral character, habits & practices. Join us and @coghsimon on 9 Apr Melbourne Connect as we take a deep dive into Shannon's work on the AI Mirror: go.unimelb.edu.au/bht8

Very pleased to announce that philosopher Prof Shannon Vallor is giving a public talk at the Science Gallery at Uni Melbourne on 9th April at 6pm on AI ethics. Space is limited. events.unimelb.edu.au/CAIDE/event/36…

A perspective on developing ethically aware models of infectious disease interventions. Collab with ethicists Julian Savulescu and Simon Coghlan along with epi modelers Freya Shearer Michael Plank Dr. Joel C. Miller Kylie Ainslie, PhD and Nic Geard
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Just because we can, should we?

Announcing NOT NATURAL – an exhibition exploring the growing friction between natural and artificial systems and the plethora of ethical dilemmas that go along with it.

Opens 17 February 2024.

melbourne.sciencegallery.com/not-natural

The AI Bias That’s Often Overlooked: Speciesism sentientmedia.org/ai-bias-specie… via @sentient_media

CAIDE researcher Simon Coghlan is quoted in this month's Big Issue magazine on robot dogs. Simon is pictured here with non-robot dogtoral canidate Basil 🐶

A new paper on AI ethics and genomic testing in children and pregnancy with the wonderful Dr Danya Vears and Chris Gyngell link.springer.com/article/10.100…

COMING SOON
I am editing 'The Handbook on the #ethics of #AI ' for Elgar Publishing and just finished reading brilliant chapters by @Joshuak_Smith Josh Gellers Eileen Margaret Hunt Cindy Friedman Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This Sven Nyholm Simon Chesterman 陈西文 Elke Schwarz Dr Syed Mustafa Ali Eduard Fosch-Villaronga et al.

How could AI affect animals? cosmosmagazine.com/technology/ai/…

Do animals have dignity? I explore this in a new paper #animal #Philosophy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New paper out with Simon Coghlan Dr Kobi Leins Piers Gooding marc.cheong Susie (She/Her) , regarding ethical issues with using (mental health) chatbots. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Little piece with colleague Shaanan Cohney on AI: Apocalypse or overblown hype? pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/ai-ap…

📚 Animal Liberation Now – Peter Singer (Penguin Random House)

First published in 1975, Animal Liberation opened our eyes to the exploitation of animals – and a new edition assesses the state of animal rights today, writes Simon Coghlan (@UniMelb). bit.ly/3N56JGt

My review of Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer for The Conversation. theconversation.com/peter-singers-…

Centre for AI and Digital Ethics fabulous CoDirector @tmiller_unimelb is off on a new adventure - crying and excited for him at the same time ...

'Ethics of using artificial intelligence (AI) in veterinary medicine' | Simon Coghlan and Thomas Quinn | #AnimalEthics #FutureOfAI #DigitalEthics #AI #VeterinaryMedicine (1/n)
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Today 'The Relational Turn: An Ethics for the 21st Century and Beyond' at Centre for AI and Digital Ethics University of Melbourne...in which we flip-the-script on 2000+ years of moral philosophy. With thanks to Simon Coghlan for organizing and hosting the event.

'The work of ethics is ostensibly inexhaustible.'
Prof David J. Gunkel presenting at Melbourne Connect University of Melbourne Computing & Information Systems UniMelb Simon Coghlan

Now with the link link.springer.com/article/10.100… 😄🐶