Category Neuroethics

Empathy-Simulating Chatbots: A Double-Edged Sword in Mental Health Care

Vanita Fernandes warns that the use of empathy-simulating chatbots in mental health care poses ethical concerns including the risk of deception.

Ethical Considerations for Using Tracking Technology in Dementia Care

Madalena Liougas and Alisa Grigorovich highlight that, when it comes to the use of tracking technologies in dementia care, surveillance isn’t safety, and safety shouldn’t mean surrendering dignity.

When AI Rents Humans: A Warning for Healthcare

Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon warns that as artificial intelligence (AI) agents begin hiring humans for physical tasks, we must ensure this inversion of labour does not reduce health care to a series of gig-economy transactions directed by algorithms.

Let’s Raise the Bar for Research Ethics Standards on Psychedelics

Paola Cubillos draws attention to the ethical and methodological concerns from MDMA- Assisted Therapy research and argues that these issues merit a stringent research ethics oversight framework for psychedelic clinical studies.

What Does Bioethics Offer Biotech?

Palmer Montalbano recommends biotech companies integrate ethics into their processes at an early stage to produce better long-term outcomes for both society and business.