Next was a great symposium on clinical trial data sharing and reproducibility at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics with Jeffrey Drazen, Harlan Krumholz, and Ameet Sarpatwari. The implications of this discussion go far beyond medicine, applying to many data-intensive disciplines where data collection is labor intensive, ethically fraught, and devalued by the academic community https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThbJJC2kOdc (5/9) #bioethics#ethics#data#science
“The controversy about the decision to fly an #UpsideDown American #flag outside the home of Justice #Alito recalls St. Paul’s admonition that while some things may be lawful, ‘not all things are helpful.’
“I can offer no opinion as to whether the flag display at the justice’s house was #unlawful. I won’t even opine whether my flying the flag upside-down at my house would have constituted a violation of the code of #ethics that binds me & all #FederalJudges — except the justices.
Good. Biden's appointment of Altman to the AI safety and security board is up there with his Garland and Fauci appointments. Bad decisions.
The man has been accused by those who know him in his own inner circle of being "not consistently candid" and if there's anyone who should not be deciding AI risk issues it's someone not candid.
"Scarlett Johansson scandal puts OpenAI's Sam Altman back in the hot seat"
The recording of the 2024 Sue and Harry Bovay Lecture in the History & Ethics of Engineering is now live!
Jon Leydens (Colorado School of Mines) spoke about social context & public welfare in engineering curricula and how we can better include these topics in engineering education.