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Presenting robots as people stops us thinking clearly about AI
Last week, Pepper the robot spoke before Parliament, but this kind of stunt distracts from the real issues AI provokes, says Joanna Bryson
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Patricia Vargas: Should robots have rights?
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Following trends and easy answers isn’t the way to a good life
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Humans
Trolley problem tested in real life for first time with mice
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Don’t blame academics like me for Facebook’s privacy crisis
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Health
DNA sequencing of babies is here: Should it be available to all?
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Humans
US wants first drones that can kill people truly independently
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Health
Why the UK’s new opt-out organ donation plan probably won’t work
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Should we revisit ethically dubious experiments from the past?
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It’s time to label all meat as stunned or unstunned at slaughter
One solution to concern over how animals are killed for our plates is labelling that makes this welfare distinction plain on all meat, says Danny Chambers
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What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?
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Scientists have cloned monkeys and it could help treat cancer
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Why we should build AI that sometimes disobeys our commands
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Power really can corrupt people. Here’s what to do about it
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