As science, technology, and medicine advance, society will confront new ethical dilemmas at the nexus of public health policy and individual choice. The Master of Arts in Bioethics at the College of Global Public Health provides a strong philosophical foundation for navigating these urgent questions.
For National Public Heath Week, Dr. Arthur Caplan, Professor of Bioethics and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman, joins us to talk about the current ethical challenges raised by organ transplants. Must be a part of the NYU community to attend.
The Value of Unity Friday, April 14th 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm 708 Broadway, Room 1001 Reception to follow, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm 708 Broadway, Room 301 This project outlines a new approach to intrinsic value, an enhanced desire-satisfaction theory structured around logical relations that desires have to the world and to each […]
The New York University Center for Bioethics is pleased to hold its Third Annual Philosophical Bioethics Workshop, to be held in person at NYU on Friday & Saturday, April 28-29, 2023. 3-5 Washington Place & 708 Broadway New York, NY 10003 We are seeking to showcase new work in philosophical bioethics, including (but not limited to) […]
The NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program presents
NYU Workshop on Animal and AI Consciousness
Bioethics New Student Orientation Kimmel 60 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012 Room 905/907
AI Consciousness Report: A Roundtable Discussion with Patrick Butlin, Robert Long, Yoshua Bengio, and Grace Lindsay The NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program Virtual on Zoom About the talk This event will feature four authors from the recently released and widely discussed AI consciousness report. This report argues for, and exemplifies, a rigorous and empirically grounded approach to AI […]
Can and Should Machines Learn Morality? Dilemmas, Paradoxes, and Pluralism Wednesday, September 6th 2023 Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm 708 Broadway, Room 801 This talk aims to toss around several thorny questions such as (1) can and should machines learn morality, (2) can AI be truly safe without basic sense of ethics and morals, (3) […]
AI for Healthy Cities: Harnessing Data Science for Cardiovascular Health SEPTEMBER 19 AT 12PM ET The Westin New York Grand Central Madison Ballroom, 212 East 42nd Street New York, NY 10017 This event is hosted by Novartis Foundation, Foreign Policy & the NYU School of Global Public Health Novartis Foundation and Foreign Policy will host […]
Public Health Connectors : How Global and Environmental Health has helped UN agencies and health ministries in 100+ countries address complex health emergencies since 2015 Hosted by the NYU GPH Global and Environmental Public Health Program Presented by Dr. Chris Dickey Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 Location: NYU GPH, 708 Broadway, […]
About the talk Advances in AI have raised again the question of whether the biology of animal nervous systems matters to the mental characteristics of physical systems, especially consciousness. Godfrey-Smith will argue that nervous systems are indeed special, and a conscious artificial mind will probably have to be more brain-like than many people have supposed. He […]
CONTROVERSIES IN POPULATION HEALTH AI in Medicine: Will It Improve Or Worsen Health Care Disparities? Thursday, October 5, 2023 12 – 1:30pm EST Virtual Event Register Moderator Rumi Chunara, PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics, NYU School of Global Public Health Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Director, Center […]
Measuring Structural Racism: Lesson Learned from the Marvin Grey Matter Family OCTOBER 10 AT 1:30PM ET This event is hosted by the GPH Center for Anti-racism, Social Justice & Public Health (CASJPH) As part of the CASJPH Seminar Series, Paris “AJ” Adkins-Jackson, PhD, MPH, will present on "Measuring Structural Racism: Lesson Learned from the Marvin Grey Matter Family." […]
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