ethics
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An Animal Rights Nonprofit Is Suing YouTube Over Animal Abuse Videos
An animal rights nonprofit is suing YouTube for failing to take down videos of animal abuse, and often allegedly profiting from them by selling ads running alongside the content, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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The Meatless Movement Could Become a Class War
On Monday, New York City’s Eleven Madison Park announced it would no longer serve meat as part of its $US315 ($409) tasting menu. It quickly met with conservative backlash that’s become de rigeur with anything remotely resembling a pro-climate choice.
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If a Robot is Conscious, is it Okay to Turn it Off?
In the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “The Measure of a Man,” Data, an android crew member of the Enterprise, is to be dismantled for research purposes unless Captain Picard can argue that Data deserves the same rights as a human being. Naturally the question arises: What is the basis upon which something has…
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What to Know About Neuralink, Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Interface Project
Elon Musk is set to make an announcement about Neuralink, a company designing brain-computer interface technology, on Friday, August 28. It sounds like science fiction, but research in this area has progressed rapidly in recent years, though we’re still far from being able to send emails with our minds. Unlike Musk’s other famous ventures, SpaceX…