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A Pepper model robot gives evidence in parliament

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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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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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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC,, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees, Washington DC, USA - 10 Apr 2018

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Don’t blame academics like me for Facebook’s privacy crisis

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DNA sequencing of babies is here: Should it be available to all?

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US wants first drones that can kill people truly independently

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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?

Humans

Should we revisit ethically dubious experiments from the past?

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A butcher's selling halal meat

Humans

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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Life

What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?

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Life

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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