In a sense, it sounds like that’s another facet of computational thinking that’s more relevant in the age of AI—the abstractions of statistics and probability in addition to algorithms and data ...

Founded in 1918 by the five Ball Brothers — Lucius, William, Edmund, Frank and George — Ball State University has curated a few rules through its 106-year standing that have never been written — until ...

In its recommendations on AI ethics, the U.S. Department of Education pointed to a February 2024 proposal from NIST researchers to build on the “long-standing concepts” set out in the 1979 Belmont ...

OTAGO, New Zealand — Forget Marie Kondo’s organized closets. New research reveals that people who embrace a simple life may feel better not only because they own fewer possessions, but most strongly ...

On 14 December, 1784, a rather special initiation ceremony took place at the Masonic lodge known as ‘Zur Wohltätigkeit’ (‘Beneficence’) in Vienna. The new initiate was none other than the 28-year-old ...

Aria Trivedi is a biology major with a minor in biotechnology, and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

Beneficence refers to acting from a spirit of compassion and kindness to benefit others. [4] Nurses and physicians must view beneficence from the perspective of the patient and families. Parents and ...

Nonmaleficence means non-harming or inflicting the least harm possible to reach a beneficial outcome. [4] Harm and its effects are considerations and part of the ethical decision-making process in the ...

Correspondence to Dr Lotte Elton, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK; lotteelton{at}gmail.com Cancer screening programmes cause harm to ...

I know exactly what this book is going to be: a man very much like my father will behave selfishly, just like my father. He will betray his wife, and later he will betray his daughter. In his own mind ...

For the third time in my career as an academic librarian, we are facing a digital revolution that is radically and rapidly transforming our information ecosystem. The first was when the internet ...