Three ethical issues around pig heart transplants
A pig's heart has been used in a human transplant operation - what are the questions to consider?
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A pig's heart has been used in a human transplant operation - what are the questions to consider?
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There is broad agreement about the need for the development and application of AI to be subject to ethical guidelines and constraints. Equally, there is today little dissent from the view that the way we treat animals should also be guided by ethical considerations. Within the field of AI ethics, however, there is virtually no discussion of how AI impacts animals, nor of the ethical problems to which these impacts may give rise. Self-driving cars that might encounter animals, autonomous killing drones that target animals, and AI systems now working in factory farms, are all examples of AI tech...