The new neuroethics graduate course is designed and taught by two Kavli Center fellows, and seeks to engage graduate students with expertise across diverse disciplines. Over the semester, students will explore and discuss how neuroscience impacts broader society, and the ethical considerations that come with this increasing influence.
This course is sponsored and supported by the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, and offered through the department of Molecular and Cell Biology with Professor Dan Feldman, and with guidance from Kavli Center faculty...
This seminar seeks to examine key moral and political issues raised by the development and deployment of artificial intelligence. These include the challenge of aligning AI with human preferences, values, and norms; the problem of algorithmic power and the permissibility of collecting and analyzing people’s data to deliver interventions that shape their behavior; whether creating and distributing deepfakes is inherently wrong; the changing nature of employment and the desirability of a post-work world; and the conditions under which AI systems would themselves have well-being or qualify as...
A new, mini-course created in connection with the Kavli Center and offered through the School of Public Health will give students the skills to identify and analyze ethical challenges in innovation (with an emphasis on public health topics). This course is case-based yet takes an unusually systematic approach. Each week introduces one of four major ethical theories relevant to public health, showing how the theories relate to each other. Students will learn how to identify the core ethical issues at stake in real examples and which theoretical approach to take for which types of challenges...
