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Boosting Public Discourse: Towards a Targeted, Evidence-Based Strategy to Improve Moral Reasoning
Introduction A booster for public discourse: an interdisciplinary research team develops a goal-oriented, evidence-based strategy to improve moral reasoning. The aim of this project is to contribute to a better understanding of how public discourse can fail due to an unreflective use of key moral terms, and to test a strategy for improving critical thinking…
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The Outbreak. Pandemics & Bioethics: Co-Designing a Graphic Novel
https://www.theoutbreak.ch/ https://www.ibme.uzh.ch/en/Biomedical-Ethics/Research/Ongoing-Research/Public-Health-Ethics/The-Outbreak.html Introduction The recent pandemic has shown us, on a large scale, that bioethics is much more than a field of theoretical research. Leaders had to make numerous difficult decisions at the political, health and economic levels, which strongly impacted both society and individuals. We as bioethics scholars must better understand the need, role…
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Can Critical Thinking Skills Help Us Recognize Misinformation better?
OSF wiki, files, and preregistration available here. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/Y2674 Background Our time is characterized by an unprecedented abundance of information available online. Even though this opens up a myriad of possibilities for people to gather vast knowledge on virtually any topic, recognizing the truthfulness of information online is not straightforward. Mastering skills in critical thinking…
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Can AI Disinform Us Better?
OSF wiki, files, and preregistration available here. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/9NTGF Background Artificial intelligence text generators caught much attention over the last years, especially after the release of GPT-3 in 2020. GPT-3, the latest iteration of the Generative Pre-trained Transformers developed by OpenAI, is arguably one of the most advanced systems of pre-trained language representations. A generative pre-trained…
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Concerns Around Opposition to the Green Pass in Italy. Social Listening Analysis (plus some ethical reflections)
I presented these slides at the Prague School of Bioethics 2022. Here you find the deck and links to related resources (papers, software, toy data for DIY enthusiasts, …).
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Learning from patients how to manage a pandemic. COVID-19 in Switzerland
I presented these slides at the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, Gothenburg 2022. The preprint of the paper mentioned in the slides is available here.
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Ethical dilemmas in the time of COVID-19: mapping, understanding, building systemic resilience (PhD dissertation)
This is my PhD dissertation. As it contains quite a lot of NLP, I thought the best way to describe it is via NLP – so the image above is a word cloud with the top 45 most frequent words in the dissertation itself. Abstract The outbreak of COVID-19 has posed unprecedented challenges to public…
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Ethical dilemmas in the time of COVID-19: mapping, understanding, building systemic resilience (PhD defense)
This is the deck I prepared for my PhD’s defense. It tries to summarize and present about 3 years of research in something less than one hour – so it’s a bit dense. Nevertheless, as each chapter is based on a publication, each section contains the references to the original article, for those who wish…
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Addressing Volatile Ethical Issues of Covid-19 with the Core Five Enduring Values List for Health Care Professionals
As we continue to adjust and assess our efforts to address changing pandemic challenges, we need to consider not just clinical metrics, but also key moral and societal core values: autonomy, privacy, equity, proportionality, and trust. From an ethical perspective, the Covid-19 pandemic is like a prism: It helps us see the spectrum of issues…
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INFO WARS: On the ethics of crisis communication@GESDA
This cool deck was presented by Federico Germani, Nikola Biller-Andorno and myself at the Geneva Science and Diplomacy week. The COVID-19 crisis unveiled an underlying tension in contemporary societies. In order to protect people rapidly and efficiently, governments started to adopt paternalistic strategies. Citizens’ autonomy has been put off the table in two senses: 1.…
