Spring 2023 Lunch Talk Series: Bastian Steuwer Saving Young Adults Over Infants: Defending Gradualist Health Priorities Tuesday, January 24th 2:00 - 3:30 pm 708 Broadway, Room 801 Lunch provided   In health policy and elsewhere, we can sometimes choose between averting the deaths of different people at different ages. Gradualism holds that (i) we should - all else […]

The Center for Bioethics at NYU is pleased to announce its fifth annual undergraduate essay contest for 2023. Undergraduates from across the world are invited to submit a 2,000-3,000 word essay addressing a contemporary issue in bioethics. The winning essay(s) willwin a cash prize! Essays will be judged by the faculty of the Center for […]

The Center for Anti-Racism Inaugural Symposium will take place on March 27-28th.     Day One:  Monday, March 27, 2023 10:30 AM-3:00 PM  Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012 9th Floor   Day Two: Tuesday, March 28, 2023  3:00 PM- 6:00 PM  NYU School of Global Public Health 708 […]

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) […]