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Bitesize ethics 2025: Session seven Sustainable AI: Balancing Innovation with Environmental Responsibility Speaker: Sanja Scepanovic Graphic includes a headshot of the speaker, on a grey background. The QR code links to the programme webpage: https://www.uehiro/bitesize-ethics-summer-2025

What does it mean for AI to be environmentally and socially sustainable? Find out with Nokia Bell Lab's Sanja Scepanovic tomorrow in the next instalment of Bitesize's 'Ethics in the age of AI'.
www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth...
#SustainableAI #ethics

@oxhumanities.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk

We're delighted to welcome @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social to the position of Senior Researcher in Moral Psychology and Design Bioethics, at the Uehiro Oxford Institute.
Read more about Kathryn here: www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-ka...

#morality #emergingtech #ethics #welcome

Bitesize ethics 2025: Session six The Ethics of Smart Phones Speaker: Emma Dore-Horgan Graphic includes a smiling headshot of the speaker, on a mint green background. The QR code links to the programme webpage: https://www.uehiro/bitesize-ethics-summer-2025

Are we better or worse off because of smartphones?
What are our interactional duties and responsibilities in this phone-based world?
Join us online tomorrow at 12:35 UK time to learn more. All are welcome!
www.uehiro/bitesize-eth...

#ethics #bitesize #freeeducation #OnlineLearning #smartphones

Have you recently completed your doctorate and are looking for your next steps in ethics? Consider applying for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship through the UOI!
Deadline for EOIs: 6th August
www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/british-acad...

#ethics #fellowships #funding

Jen's video is now available on YouTube here: youtu.be/xTlKK8Z9Ux0?...

@jensemler.bsky.social

#AIethics #ethics #LLMs #morality #machinelearning

YouTube video by Uehiro Oxford Institute Channel What is the point of moral philosophy?

Roger Crisp introduces his new book 'What is the point of moral philosophy?' edited with Ingmar Persson & @juliansavulescu.bsky.social.
ISBN 9781032802558 youtube.com/shorts/uikew...
#ethics #metaethics

2025 Annual Conference - Society for Business Ethics 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Business Ethics The Society for Business Ethics (SBE) is excited to welcome guests to our next annual meeting in Copenhagen this summer. We will continue the hyb...

UOI director Roger Crisp is looking forward to providing a plenary session on 'Ethics and Business Ethics' at the Society for Business Ethics 2025 Annual Meeting tomorrow, alongside many other colleagues from Oxford. sbeonline.org/conference/2...
#ethics #PhilosophyMatters

Work with us Apply to our job vacancies ranging from professional and support roles to research and academic positions at the Ethox Centre part of Oxford University

The Ethox Centre is hiring a researcher from the Humanities/ Social Sciences disciplines, to join the Wellcome Trust funded discovery project 'After the end: Lived experiences & aftermaths of Diseases, Disasters & Drugs in global health'.
🗓️Deadline 1st Sept
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/opportunitie...

Bitesize ethics summer 2025 Free, online talks looking at topical issues that intersect with current research at the Uehiro Oxford Institute

Thanks Jakob. You're right - it should be uehiro.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth... Apologies for the mistake.

Bitesize Ethics 2025: Session five Teaching Ethics to Machines Speaker: Jen Semler The background image is a colour headshot of Jen Semler, superimposed on UOI branding (natural patterns such as a tree ring or fingerprint) on a terracotta background.

Can we teach ethics to machines? And if we can, should we? Join @jensemler.bsky.social online on Wednesday 23rd to find out more...
uehiro.web.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth...

#Bitesize #ethics #AI #onlineeducation #PhilosophyMatters

A warm welcome to José-Antonio Seoane, Full Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Universidade da Coruña (Spain) and a member of the Spanish Bioethics Committee, who joins us for one month. Prof Seoane has certainly brought great weather with him!

Bitesize Ethics 2025: Session four All play and no work? AI and existential unemployment Speaker: Gary O'Brien The background image is a half-tone headshot of Gary O'Brien, superimposed on UOI branding (natural patterns such as a tree ring or fingerprint) on a slate grey background.

Could AI replace humans in some of the work through which we find meaning in our lives – work like scientific research and the creation of art? How could humans respond to this threat to wellbeing? Join us today at 12:35 to discuss. www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth...
#Bitesize #Philosophy

Last week, the UOI's Senior Research Fellow Lisa Forsberg was at the 10th anniversary conference for the #Diversityreadinglist in #philosophy

The DRL collects high quality texts in philosophy written by authors from under-represented groups, which you can find here: diversityreadinglist.org

Bitesize Ethics 2025: Session three The Ethics of Privacy Speaker: Helena Ward The background image is a half-tone headshot of Helena Ward, superimposed on UOI branding (natural patterns such as a tree ring or fingerprint) on a mint green background.

What is #privacy? What counts as personal information? And why is privacy important? #Bitesize Ethics speaker Helena Ward introduces some of the current problems that AI raises for privacy: join us online next Wednesday to find out more: www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth...

Thank you again to all our sponsors for helping us put this conference together and gather such a brilliant group of people!

@uehiro.ox.ac.uk, @uomsoss.bsky.social, Manchester Met, the Analysis Trust, The Mind Association, @standrewsphil.bsky.social, and the Society for Applied Philosophy

TONIGHT! If you're in Oxford join us in the #UPP for a screening of The Sea Inside, followed by a discussion on the ethics of #death, dying and #end-of-life care with Alberto Giubilini, Angeliki Kerasidou (@oxpop.bsky.social) & Victoria Bradley (OU Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust).
#PhilosophyMatters

YouTube video by Uehiro Oxford Institute Channel 2025 Parfit Memorial Lecture with Prof Jacob Nebel - The Procreation Asymmetry

The 2025 Parfit Memorial Lecture given by Prof Jacob Nebel is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FIx...
You may also be interested in the accompanying blog post by UOI student Paul Heller, where he unpacks some of the puzzles: blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2025/07/2025...

#Parfit

The UOI is happy to be part of the 2024-2025 Torch-AfOx fellowship, with Alberto Giubilini hosting Dennis Masaka.

While in Oxford, Dennis worked on his manuscript about collective responsibility and land redistribution in Zimbabwe.

#ethics #practicalethics #AfOx

Tomorrow @mgreinecke.bsky.social ‬continues our Bitesize Ethics summer programme with 'The Ethics of Human-AI Relationships'. Join us to explore the psychological and ethical nuances in our relationships with machines.
www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth...

#PhilosophyMatters #ethics

St Cross Uehiro Lecture: Professor Michael Sandel YouTube video by St Cross College Oxford

St Cross Uehiro lecture: “Rock star moralist” (Newsweek) Prof. Michael Sandel discusses #meritocracy beyond its seemingly positive connotation, providing an analysis of current socio-political issues in the light of what he calls ‘the tyranny of merit”.
👀 www.youtube.com/live/mv6Cg_3...
#ethics

Reviewing the 14-day rule: Public dialogue - Nuffield Council on Bioethics We will be conducting a UK-based deliberative dialogue to understand public views and values on regulatory options for human embryo research.

Reviewing the 14-day rule for human embryo research: we're delighted that UOI scholar César Palacios-Gonzáles has joined the @nuffieldbioethics.bsky.social Oversight Group to oversee the public dialogue – providing challenge, guidance and advice on its scope, design and delivery.
➡️🔗 bit.ly/3TcUGKJ

A grey square featuring a headshot of speaker Hazem Zohny, and a QR code linking to the web page for the programme: https://www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-ethics-summer-2025

Join us tomorrow for our first Bitesize class of 2025 - the Ethics of AI: key questions for our changing world. With Dr Hazem Zohny.
Register here: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth...
#AI #ethics #bias #accountability #culture

Just one week to go before #BitesizeEthics 2025! We're really looking forward to some great discussions and new perspectives on Ethics in the Age of AI. No experience necessary to take part, and there's still time to register: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth...
@torchoxford.bsky.social
#AIethics

A warm welcome to Anna Lena Strauss, visiting from the University of Bonn. The slide has a green background with UOI branding and a photograph of Anna in the middle.

We're delighted to welcome our colleague Anna Lena Strauss from ‪@unibonn.bsky.social, here for a short visit to work collaboratively on a new campaign on 'Women in Ethics'. Tell us who you think we should feature!

#womeninethics #PhilosophyMatters #ethics

2025 Parfit Memorial Lecture The Procreation Asymmetry: Some Puzzles (working title)

2025 Parfit Memorial Lecture - join us next Monday (16th) for Prof Jacob Nebel's talk 'The Procreation Asymmetry: Some Puzzles'. Details and registration here: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/event/2025-p...
@torchoxford.bsky.social
#Parfit #PhilosophyMatters #ProcreationAsymmetry #ethics

We'd like to welcome Professor Saul Smilansky to the UOI for a short academic visit.

Saul is Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Haifa, Israel. He works primarily on normative and applied ethics, the free will problem, and meaning in life.

#Ethics #PracticalEthics

We're delighted to be hosting Marcus T.L. Teo at the UOI for a short academic visit. Marcus is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

We hope you have a lovely time in Oxford!

#Ethics #PracticalEthics

We're delighted to be hosting Professor Julia Driver from @universityoftexas.bsky.social at the UOI! She works in normative ethics, moral psychology, and metaethics and is currently working on a book on moral blame as a response to violations of normative expectations.

#ethics #practicalethics

A warm welcome to Katya, visiting us from Monash University to complete her research on 'Must doctors be good people?'

We hope you enjoy your time at the UOI and in Oxford, Katya!

#Ethics #PracticalEthics

Thank you so much for joining the programme today @ljspencer.bsky.social. It was great to have you with us.