Biotech & Pharma

Biotech and Pharma refer to the commercial sectors that develop, manufacture, and market products based in the biological and chemical sciences. Multinational pharmaceutical companies have invested heavily in biotech as a potential source of new products. While some biotech products and activities are socially and ethically controversial, the biotech industry often opposes public oversight and regulation. Given its impact on public debate and public policy, especially as it blurs the lines between private enterprise and public interest, biotech’s interests must be transparent.

Protecting Against AI’s Existential Threat

By Ilya Sutskever and Dario Amodei, Wall Street Journal | 10.18.2017

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How to avoid the nightmare scenario of artificial intelligence? According to researchers from Elon Musk’s OpenAI, the trick is teaching machines to keep our interests in mind

On July 8, 2017, an AI system built by our research company, OpenAI,...

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What DNA Testing Companies’ Terrifying Privacy Policies Actually Mean

By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 10.18.2017

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You probably wouldn’t hand out your social security number without having a pretty good idea of how that information was going to be used, right? That would be dumb. It’s extremely sensitive information. And yet, the consumer genetic testing market ...

Bioethics