Author: Frederick Eberhardt
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Conversation with Dr. John Marken and Professor Richard Murray about regulating engineered microbes
At the end of February, the CSSPP hosted a workshop on the “Pathways Towards the Safe and Effective Deployment of Engineered Microbial Technologies”. It brought together researchers, regulators, and industry representatives to discuss the science, ethics, and policy of engineered microbes. We already reported on it here and are currently in the process of publishing…
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Teaching Ethics & AI in the Wake of ChatGPT
The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has raised profound questions about why and how we teach writing at university, and the extent to which instructors can still assess the level of student understanding on the basis of written work. In the most recent iteration of Caltech’s first year class on Ethics & AI, Professor…