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Author of The Right to Be Loved (); Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics, Director, Center for Bioethics, New York University

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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence is now in print! You can get a copy from all major outlets such as Amazon () and Barnes and Noble. Please consider leaving a review on Amazon if you can! #Ethics #Artificialintelligence
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And now @ChrisEvans , AKA #CaptainAmerica , on how to improve our political discourse and encourage productive civic engagment in our fractured society. #TheAtlanticFest @TheAtlantic
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Here’s the book jacket for Ethics of Artificial Intelligence! It should be out in a month or so. Many thanks to Huw Price, @tinaeliassi , and @Plural_truth for their very kind blurbs! @OUPPhilosophy #EthicsAI #ArtificialIntelligence
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We are most delighted that @judge_jen will be joining @NYU_Bioethics this fall as a postdoctoral associate working with Claudia Passos and me on the philosophy and ethics of AI! Welcome, Jenny! #ArtificialIntelligence #ethics #philosophy
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At the @nyu graduation ceremony at the Yankee stadium! @taylorswift13
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Just signed a contract with @OUPPhilosophy to publish a collection on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence! #ethics #ArtificialIntelligence #AI I couldn't be more excited about the contributors, which include . . . (1/3)
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Submitted the final version of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence to @OUPPhilosophy today! 17 chapters and 30 contributors! #ethics #Artificialintelligence #philosophy
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Panelists (including a writer/executive producer for @WestworldHBO ) on how Hollywood consults bioethicists to make sure that the science/ethics in their movies are informed. #bioethics #ASBH18
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Very honored to be elected a Hastings Center Fellow! Many thanks to @ArthurCaplan for nominating me and to the @hastingscenter for selecting me! #bioethics #philosophy
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David Chalmers introducing Miranda Fricker’s @APAEastern Presidential Address.
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Very nice to meet some grandmasters as well as the Chief Chess Officer of @chesscom at the @SloanSportsConf ! @DanielRensch @JenShahade @jenniferyuuu . @GM_Hess #chess
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A couple of glitches to start as we are all out of practice with in person events, but the @NYU_Bioethics 2nd Annual Philosophical Bioethics Workshop is officially underway! #bioethics #philosophy
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Current Controversies in Bioethics, ed. Collin O'Neil and me, now out! Thx Jeff McMahan for kind blurb! #philosophy
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7 years
Getting ready for NYU Animal Consciousness Conference! #animalconsciousness @NYU_Bioethics @nyupublichealth
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Professor Onora O'Neill, Winner of the 2017 Berggruen Prize. @berggruenInst #moral #philosophy
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Hello Singapore!
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Many congratulations to @cpassosf on joining us at @NYU_Bioethics as Assistant Professor of Bioethics, tenure-track! We are very lucky to have you!
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Farewell lunch with our amazing postdoc in AI @judge_jen who will take up a tenure track position at University of Melbourne! @NYU_Bioethics
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@aliciagarza , co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter : we need a leader who works to weave our country back together. #TheAtlanticFest @TheAtlantic
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Fantastic two days of philosophical Bioethics followed by a lovely conference dinner! @NYU_Bioethics #Philosophy
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Day 2 of @NYU_Bioethics Philosophical Bioethics Workshop has started! #Philosophy #bioethics
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S. Matthew Liao
3 years
Getting a lot of ‘fan’ mails because of @TuckerCarlson . . . For the record, I've never said that government should force people not to eat meat. #human_engineering
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6 years
Filming a segment of In Search Of, hosted by Zachary Quinto, for the History Channel.
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8 years
My talk about artificial intelligence and moral status #ethicsofAI @NYU_Bioethics
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S. Matthew Liao
2 years
It’s a wrap for me at the 2022 Pacific APA! Enjoyed the talks and seeing people I hadn’t seen in ages. Let’s hope that the pandemic eases and we get to do more of this! @apaphilosophy
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I'm very delighted to report that Chiara Cordelli, Johann Frick, Kerah Gordon-Solmon, Martin O'Neill, & Bart Streumer will be joining the Journal of Moral Philosophy as Associate Editors! Thank you in advance for your time and service to the profession! #moral @philosophy
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9 years
How often do you get to dance on top of a particle accelerator? @TEDxCERN http://t.co/4ipGMMn41p
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3 years
Off to rehearse my talk in the Globe! @CERN #ArtificialIntelligence
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What do people think of this book jacket for #Moral #Brains : The #Neuroscience of #Morality @OUPPhilosophy ?
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1 year
Enjoying APA-ing! @apaphilosophy
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2 years
Happy holidays from @NYU_Bioethics !
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3 years
Is Bioethics a good career choice? Dr. Grady: “Yes!” Dr. Fauci “Overwhelmingly! The gratification you can get from doing something to precious to people (their lives)…it’s meaningful!” #Stubing2021 @GreenwallFdn @NYU_Bioethics @nyupublichealth
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S. Matthew Liao
10 months
Enjoyed delivering a keynote on AI ethics at the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum Conference at James Madison University! #AI #ethics
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3 years
Farewell lunch with our wonderful colleague, Adam Lerner, whose 3-year position with us wraps up this year. Good luck at Princeton, Adam! @NYU_Bioethics
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7 years
Off to #asbh17 to talk about human rights and public health ethics on Sun (9:15am-10:45am). Hope to see some of you there! @NYU_Bioethics
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3 years
A party to thank our current @NYU_Bioethics students for making through online Zoom classes with us this past year!
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Welcome @NYU_Bioethics Class 2022 MA students!
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5 years
Having a great time hanging out with a bunch of excellent philosophers/bioethicists at @BlumenthalBarby ’s Philosophical Bioethics Workshop in Houston!
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8 years
Book jacket for Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality, which will be out in September.
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7 years
@OUPPhilosophy EthicsofAI contributors: @PeterAsaro , JF Bonnefon, Nick Bostrom, @j2bryson , Andrew Critch, @drkatedevlin , Allan Dafoe, Carrick Flynn, Mara Garza, Hanna Gunn, @demishassabis , @OnAssholes , Patrick LaVictoire, @ylecun , @SeanLegassick , @Plural_truth , @mathbabedotorg (2/3)
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7 years
Is Neuroscience relevant for Ethics? Read my take on it in this special issue for Experimental Psychology:
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S. Matthew Liao
5 years
Honored to be on a panel with President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany & a group of distinguished panelists at Harvard Law School talking about the ethics of digital transformation! #ethics #AI
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My conversation with @manoushz about whether we have a moral duty to quit @Facebook is in the new episode of @IRLPodcast_org ! … … #facebook #socialmedia
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S. Matthew Liao
3 years
Very excited to learn that Ethics of Artificial Intelligence () is being translated into Simplified Chinese! Thanks to @peter_ohlin @OUPPhilosophy for facilitating this! #Ethics #AI
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5 years
The program for the @NYU_Bioethics Workshop on #Ethics of #AI and #Healthcare is now available! Space is limited, so RSVP if you would like to attend. #NYUAIEthics
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6 years
Happy holidays from @NYU_Bioethics !
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8 years
Tom Nagel on delegating ethics to AI #ethicsofAI
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S. Matthew Liao
6 years
Had a blast at the Book Report Battle at Caveat tonight! @joshgondelman , #ziwefumudoh , & @aparnapkin were super funny. Many thanks to @NYU_Bioethics students and colleagues for coming and to #JordanMendoza , @shodell , & @joannarothkopf for inviting me!
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Is it ethical to have designer babies? Here is my take on this issue, which has just been published in Bioethics … #bioethics #philosophy #CRISPR #GeneEditing #genetic_engineering
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1 year
That’s a wrap for the 3rd annual NYU Philosophical Bioethics Workshop! Excellent talks, stimulating discussions, good food! See you next year! @NYU_Bioethics #philosophy #bioethics
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Many congratulations to the 2019 graduating @NYU_Bioethics MA students! We wish you every success in your future endeavors!
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I'm very sorry to learn that my DPhil supervisor, James Griffin, has passed away. Thank you for all that you had done for me, Jim. Rest in peace.
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5 years
Spent this morning recording a podcast w/Jamie Ryerson, the @nytimes editor who commissioned my op-ed on whether we have a moral duty to leave Facebook ()! We had fun chatting about the op-ed writing process & my thoughts about public philosophy generally.
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2 years
Off to Seoul! #AIEthics #NYU -KAIST
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8 years
A new piece I wrote for @aeonmag on helping the needy children of this world @nyupublichealth @UNICEF #children
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5 years
Good to have @thom_brooks , Dean of Durham Law School, as a Visiting Researcher at @NYU_Bioethics for a few weeks!
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Very sad to learn that Joseph Raz has passed away. In Oxford, Joseph and I would, on a regular basis, go for dim sum at Liaison and talk about philosophy for several hours. I've learned a great deal from him and esp. Morality of Freedom. RIP, Joseph.
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Good morning Montreal! @APAEastern
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Many congratulations to the 2022 @NYU_Bioethics graduates!
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Looking forward to giving a keynote at the North American Society for Social Philosophy this Thursday! Excited that two @NYU_Bioethics students, Mike Corbett & John James, will also present at the conference! #philosophy #bioethics
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6 years
My colleagues surprised me with this 'social media' themed cake!
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5 years
Erin Jackson, Founder of We Are Donor Conceived, speaking at NYU Ethics of Donor Conception Conference. #IVF #bioethics #philosophy #donor #conception @NYU_Bioethics
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3 years
Switzerland here I come!
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4 years
Had a lot of fun talking about the @Netflix documentary, Social Dilemma, w/ the director & producers, @jefforlowski , Larissa & Stacey, as well as w. @merbroussard & @andersen . Thanks to Daniel Fogal & @NYU_Bioethics , @nyupublichealth for organizing it! #socialmedia
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2 years
Had a great time at the @APAEastern catching up with friends over good food and listening to talks including @davidchalmers42 ’s excellent Presidential Address on whether Large Language Models Can Think! Glad to see the @apaphilosophy back in full swing!
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2 years
Awww…they remembered!
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Looking forward to speaking at this conference on morality and machine intelligence at ANU! #philosophy #artificialintelligence #ethics
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2 years
Got my 4th shot, a Pfizer this time to go with 3 Moderna! #COVID19 #booster
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5 years
Wonderful to spend quality time with my @NYU_Bioethics colleagues and former and current students at #ASBH19 ! #bioethics
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Michael Otsuka giving a characteristically thoughtful talk and how to make our pensions work better! @NYU_Bioethics
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2 years
Bye, bye Houston! Many thanks to Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby for bringing us together for a 2-day, thought-provoking, Philosophical Bioethics workshop! Until next time! #Philosophy #Bioethics
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Eva Feder Kittay's Presidential Address, the Moral Significance of Being Human, at @APAEastern #APAEastern17
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Welcome @NYU_Bioethics MA Class of 2020! Very excited to have this talented group joining our program! #Bioethics #philosophy
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Prof Vardit Ravitsky on whether parents are allowed to map the genome of their fetus. #Bioethics
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Apparently, a high school student won Outstanding Delegate as *me* in a Model United Nations Conference! :D I want to know which of argument/position of mine she presentedx
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@OUPPhilosophy EthicsOfAI: Steve Petersen, Peter Railton, Iyad Rahwan, Francesca Rossi, Stuart Russell, Susan Schneider, @eschwitz , Azim Shariff, @mustafa @mustafasuleymn , Jessica Taylor, Edwin Turner, Shannon Vallor, @WendellWallach , @stephen_wolfram , @ESYudkowsky , & likely, Frances Kamm(3/3)
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Professor Hanna Pickard's @NYU_Bioethics Colloquium on the Puzzle of Addiction! #philosophy #ethics #addiction
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3 years
Off to the @APAEastern in Baltimore!
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2 years
You can catch me on @netflix 's new show, The Future Of, which premieres on June 21! Trailer in link.
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6 years
Fun to make an appearance in the @HISTORY Channel's In Search Of episode on Life After Death, hosted by the new Spock, @ZacharyQuinto ! #philosophy #bioethics #insearchof
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Looking forward to talking about AI and moral status at the Health Law Workshop at @Harvard_Law @PetrieFlom this Monday! Many thanks to @CohenProf for inviting me! #AI #rights #moral #status #aiethics #philosophy
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@NYU_Bioethics will host a workshop on the #Ethics of #AI & #Healthcare on April 26. Speakers include @CohenProf , @tinaeliassi , @AlexJohnLondon , Francesca Rossi, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, @EffyVayena & @syeung10 . Limited space so do RSVP. #NYUAIEthics
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6 years
Enjoyed the excellent conversation with @mdichristina @brillhart @wendyju @hodlipson & @tegmark on to be or not to be bionic: immortality & superhumanism at @WorldSciFest #worldsciencefestival #AI
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Good food in good company at ANU!
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6 years
Off to Cambridge, UK for the Varieties of Mind Conference! #AI #ethics
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7 years
Nice piece from @olgakhazan on whether living forever is desirable | #bioethics #philosophy #spacetravel
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5 years
I'll be talking about CRISPR-edited humanity this Thursday at @NewLab in Brooklyn Navy Yard. The event is free to the public but there is limited seating, so do RSVP! #bioethics #geneediting #CRISPR
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Many thanks to @ramonalvaradoq and the University of Oregon Philosophy Department for inviting me to give a colloquium talk!
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8 years
Off to Mexico to give a keynote lecture on #neuroethics at Annual Meeting of @colegiobioetica @NYU_Bioethics
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6 years
I'm most delighted to announce that Dr. @cpassosf has officially agreed to join the @NYU_Bioethics as a Visiting Assistant Professor! Welcome onboard, Claudia! #bioethics #philosophy
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Prof. @jdriver350 (U of Texas, Austin) will giving a @NYU_Bioethics Colloquium next Friday on what's wrong with moral thought experiments! There will be a reception afterwards. Do RSVP and join us! #philosophy #bioethics #thoughtexperiments
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