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Ugandan LGBT Refugee Drama Films Screened at Online Film Festival
Two films, produced as part of a School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science research project, have been selected for screening at the Changing the Story Online International Film Festival.
Public Lecture: Neeraja Sankaran on "Fantastic Microbes and Where to Find Them"
On 27 May 2020 at 5pm, visiting fellow Dr Neeraja Sankaran will deliver the C. Michael Mellor Lecture on "Fantastic Microbes and Where to Find Them: How and When Scientists Engage with Literature.
IDEA Pod new episode: Healthcare and key workers – What do we owe to them?
After a pause in production, our podcast returns to discuss the peculiar moral circumstances that NHS workers have been put through during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Pilot study at Leeds in “what if?” or counterfactual history of science
The study forms the basis for a project that has received $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation in the US.
Dr Vincent Müller publishes Stanford Encyclopedia Article on Ethics of AI and Robotics
The extensive article explores ethical issues with AI systems as objects and subjects, whilst discussing a possible future AI superintelligence leading to a “singularity”.