Join me and Insoo Hyun tomorrow for a discussion of 'The Promise and Perils of Selecting Our Children’s Traits' - registration below mos.org/events/polygen…

Expanding Applications of Clinical Genetic Testing — Ethical Challenges | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Our new paper is online: “Pandemics, intellectual property and ‘our economy’: A worldview analysis of Canada’s role in compromising global access to COVID-19 vaccines” tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Jennifer Doudna discusses immense promise of gene editing — Harvard Gazette news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

'A growing chorus of tech leaders has warned that AI poses existential risk...This paper offers a critical appraisal of the rise of calamity thinking in...AI ethics literature.' By Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D. HC's CEO Vardit Ravitsky Caesar Atuire J-C Bélisle-Pipon Anita Ho, PhD, MPH (@[email protected])
jme.bmj.com/content/early/…

'My concern is that pregnant people will be forced to allow fetuses to be taken out of their bodies and put into an artificial womb...basically a new way of taking away abortion rights.' HC CEO Vardit Ravitsky talks to Rob Stein on NPR #artificialwomb
npr.org/2024/04/10/124…

Today's the day! Please join us online at 630pm for the 2024 Bennathan Patient Safety Lecture on the impact of AI on patient safety, Keynote is Peter Lee Dr. Peter Lee, President of Microsoft Research, and an esteemed panel Vardit Ravitsky Steven Coffee Kate Kellogg…

A room with a view - in DC for a day for MedStar Health’s Bennathan Lecture at the French Embassy, to discuss the future of #AI in Health on a panel, following a Keynote by Peter Lee, President of Microsoft Research. Should be fun!

Read AI and the falling sky: interrogating X-Risk by Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D. Caesar Atuire Vardit Ravitsky J-C Bélisle-Pipon Anita Ho, PhD, MPH (@[email protected]) here.

doi.org/10.1136/jme-20…

#AIEthics #existential #ethics

Looking forward !

World IVF market is already US$25 billion bioedge.org/beginning-of-l…

Artificial Intelligence for Safer Care: Opportunities and Challenges - The Hastings Center thehastingscenter.org/hastings-cente…

The Council of Europe’s Steering Committee for Human Rights in the Field of Biomedicine & Health convened us to think about changing contexts - extremely timely to be involved in international strategic thinking, as the The Hastings Center is developing our own strategic plan.

'As a new clinical ethics fellow, I was full-in with a team of seasoned clinicians. I grappled with the relentless buzz of medical jargon and information coming piecemeal from multiple directions simultaneously.' READ F. Hossain, PhD, HEC-C Weill Cornell Medicine
thehastingscenter.org/emerging-from-…

April 1 at 4pm, HC CEO Vardit Ravitsky will present the virtual lecture: “Bioethics: A Path Forward to Face Future Challenges” at Weill Cornell Medicine's Medical Ethics Seminar Series.
Register at the link.
#ethics #bioethics #medicalethics #medtwitter #future
thehastingscenter.org/hastings-cente…

Living in poorer neighborhoods tied to faster brain aging - Futurity futurity.org/poor-neighborh…

World Down Syndrome Day: Self-Advocacy and Improving Lives | Impact Ethics impactethics.ca/2024/03/21/wor…

'The landscape surrounding posthumous sperm retrieval is rife with questions of an ethical, legal, and social nature.' Read 'Redefining Remembrance: Posthumous Sperm Retrieval in Israel after 7 October' by HC CEO Vardit Ravitsky & Roee Amir PET
progress.org.uk/redefining-rem…

On Fri. 3/22, HC CEO Vardit Ravitsky with give a talk UNC Parr Center for Ethics
on her work with NIH's Bridge2AI program. For more about the NIH program: commonfund.nih.gov/bridge2ai
To register, visit:
thehastingscenter.org/hastings-cente…

Join us tomorrow for Vardit Ravitsky of The Hastings Center!
Vardit will share her vision for the future of #bioethics . This event, which is free & open to the public, is a collaboration with UNC Bioethics
More information at: parrcenter.unc.edu/event/ravitsky…