It’s pretty important to have strong ethics even when pursuing scientific knowledge. We, in what I think most would agree is a positive move, have drawn a line at which information comes at too high a ...

Reddit is raising the alarm about what it called an “improper and highly unethical experiment” by a group of University of Zurich researchers, who secretly deployed AI bots on a popular forum to study ...

AS many as 200 psycho-logy pupils attempted “unethical” experiments, it has emerged. Kids also tried to rope younger children and strangers into their wayward studies, according to a review of school ...

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I recently read Flower Darby’s “5 Small Steps for AI Skeptics” (October 30) with great interest. I’m on record as an AI skeptic. But I’m also deeply involved in my institution’s efforts to chart a ...

As part of a challenge study conducted during the pandemic, 34 healthy volunteers were deliberately infected with SARS-CoV-2 to assess the potential cognitive impacts of COVID-19. Everything about the ...