Author: John Wyatt
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John Wyatt
Abortion Aging Artificial intelligence Assisted suicide and euthanasia Beginning of life Christianity Coronavirus Dementia Disability Dying End of life care Genetics Healthcare Human enhancement Mental health Neonatalogy Neuroscience Personhood Philosophy Reproductive technology Robotics Science Suffering Technology The Bible The church The internet Vaccines Work
Suicidal ideation, no crystal balls, conscientious objection, and Hippocrates’ successful medical practice
Will the next generation of highly convincing AI chatbots really transform society?
Advances in technology mean intelligent machines are likely to play an increasingly important role in our future
Judicial activism, a ‘reasonably foreseeable’ death, the unacceptability of suffering, and reasons to stay alive
The Eliza effect, algorithms reading lung X-rays, the problem of other minds, and adventurers on Mars
A mucky business, the ultimate conspiracy theory, ‘showbiz for ugly people’, and and atomised individuals
The judgemental society, 3,000 offensive tweets a day, freedom from vs freedom to, and Elon Musk’s Twitter
‘None of us can avoid fundamental questions about what it means to be human. These issues are far too important to be left to doctors’
Emotional resilience, the bio-psycho-social model, the power of story, and depression in the Psalms
Power dynamics, the psychiatrist as brick wall, casualties of social media, and over-pathologising distress