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Robots with a hot-line
In the article Robots with a hot-line we raise the question if governments, industries and military intelligence agencies are trustworthy enough to handle the ability to influence a persons thoughts and actions? And do we want any authority to have the means to collect and store our most inner thoughts in a databank?
This might seem like sci-fi right now, but technologies are emerging that would make such a scenario quite real. In this article robots are the link. Sooner or later we will be forced to deal with brain technologies that will challenge our ideas about privacy and autonomy, both for human and non-human lifeforms. So how should we deal with such a scenario?
Nye livsformer og deres plass i samfunnet
I takt med utviklingen av nye selvbevisste intelligente livsformer, som roboter, kyborgere og forbedrede versjoner av mennesket selv, trengs en bred evaluering av loven om menneskerettigheter. En tanke som for mange kan virke fremmed, men som om noen tiår kan være høyst aktuell.
Hvilke sosiale og økonomiske virkninger kan innføring av nye livsformer til samfunnet bringe med seg?
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Kognitive "enhancers", bør de legaliseres?
Diskusjoner raser omkring legemiddelindustriens forsøk på å skape et nytt tilbud til sine konsumenter. Preparater som øker kognitiv ytelse står på listen over produkter som skal prøves ut på markedet.
Bør kjemiske "enhancers" legaliseres? Og er det i såfall riktig at skolen skal ha ansvaret for å dele ut gratis piller til studentene?
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Medical data 'Internet' goes live, boosts research
The ANU node of BioGrid will be launched at 11am this morning at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Garran Road, ANU by Senator Kate Lundy. Members of the media are invited to attend for a demonstration of the Grid and interviews.
The ACT node of the BioGrid network is a collaborative venture between ANU and BioGrid Australia. It will allow practitioners from hospitals, universities and research centres to share and aggregate data on diseases like cancer, dementia, diabetes and cystic fibrosis.
"BioGrid is like a large medical Internet, meaning that clinical researchers can access information from existing research and clinical databases across many disease types at multiple institutions," explains Dr Andrew Janke, a researcher with expertise in medical databases at the ANU Medical School.
"There are thousands of records of patient data available on the Grid, which has a high level of security to ensure that the integrity of the information and privacy of individuals are protected. There is also a very high standard of ethical checks in place at each of the node institutions."
Researchers using BioGrid will be able to extract the de-identified data they need to test hypotheses using their own analytical tools. The information in the virtual repository will be extracted on a regular basis from all source databases and then mapped back into local repositories at each site. Read more at physorg.com
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