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Statement on COVID-19: Ethical Considerations from a Global Perspective – IBC&COMEST

Mar 31, 2020 | News

In response to the difficult ethical issues raised in our global efforts combating the COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee (IBC) and World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) have jointly issued a Statement on COVID-19: Ethical Considerations from a Global Perspective.

The Statement highlighted some vital ethical issues from a global perspective which urgently need to be recognised all over the world, and appeal for urgent actions to be taken by governments. The Statement is available in English and French.

Ficha técnica libro “Bioética para niños y niñas”

Mar 25, 2020 | News

Publicado por Editorial Porrúa

en colaboración con la Facultad de Bioética de la Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico

Bioética para niños y niñas es un libro donde tres personajes: Alex, Horacio y Abigail nos enseñan de forma ágil y divertida que la bioética se encarga de proteger la vida de las personas y de todos los seres vivos, así como los derechos de los niños y las niñas a tener una vida feliz, a vivir con valores, a actuar con justicia y a hacer el bien. A respetar la vida y la dignidad de las personas y la vida de todos los seres vivos, además de cuidar el medio ambiente y nuestro planeta.

Es un libro dirigido a niños de 8 a 12 años aproximadamente y en él se abordan temas en forma de narrativa como: qué es la bioética, qué significa ser persona, qué es la dignidad, los derechos de los niños, los valores, cuáles son los principios de la bioética, vida y medio ambiente, bioética en acción donde nos enseñan cómo aplicarla en la vida diaria.

Al final contiene una serie de actividades y ejercicios que los niños podrán realizar para reafirmar los conocimientos adquiridos.

https://porrua.mx/bioetica-para-ninos-y-ninas-9786070928857.html

Ficha técnica libro “Cuéntame de Bioética”

Mar 25, 2020 | News

Publicado en Amazon por la Cátedra Bioética para Todos

de la Universidad Anahuac

en colaboración con la UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, Roma, Italia

Cuéntame de Bioética es un libro que describe la historia de varios niños de distintas nacionalidades, Gina de España, Kenji de Japón, Yoli de México, Daren de Kenia, Naya de la India y Tomy de Estados Unidos, que junto con el profesor Aurelio descubren lo que significa la bioética y cómo se puede aplicar a su vida diaria.

Es un libro, en formato de cuento con diálogos, dirigido a niños de 6 a 8 años aproximadamente y en él se abordan temas como qué es la bioética, la dignidad, el inicio de la vida, los derechos de los niños, los valores, el cuidado de las personas y de los animales, el respeto y cuidado del medioambiente, todos estos temas tratados a través de una historia ágil, sencilla y entendible para los pequeños.

Dr. Dominique J. Monlezun received the Microsoft Award for Artificial Intelligence Doctoral Dissertation

Mar 11, 2020 | News

From 26 to 28 February some members of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights participated in the General Assembly on Artificial Intelligence organized by the Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican City.

After two days of workshops focused on the importance to the challenges in the fields of ethics, law and health regarding the AI, on February 28th during the final conference entitled “RenAIssance A Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence” our research scholar Dominique J. Monlezun Jr. received the Microsoft Award for Artificial Intelligence Doctoral Dissertation at the presence of the President of Microsoft (USA), Smith Brad and the Executive Vice-president of IBM, Kelly III John.

On June the 25th Dr. Dominique J. Monlezun Jr. publicly defended at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolurum, Rome, his doctoral thesis “Artificial intelligence & bioethics: Thomistic-Aristotelian personalist refinement of the United Nations’ social contract view of rights-duties in AI-genetic engineered nanotechnology from overlapping to converging consensus”. The doctoral thesis Director was Prof. Alberto Garcia.

Dr. Dominique J. Monlezun argues that ““if we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other” (Therese 1997).[i] Wojtyla and Teresa embodied a Thomistic metaphysics that is philosophically defensible and politically convincing by witnessing a common experiential encounter with the good, as personal as it is real. This work has sought to describe and apply this model to AI-GNR to understand its cataclysmic implications, the failure of the liberal social contract ethics alone to address them, and the unifying soundness of Thomistic personalism to do just that by establishing the anthropological consistency, political effectiveness, and philosophical robustness of a Thomistic personalist elucidation of a defensible UDBHR and UDHR-detailed human rights and duties paradigm.”

After, the “Call for an AI Ethics” was signed by Pontifical Academy for Life, Microsoft, IBM, FAO, the Italian Government. It is a document “developed to support an ethical approach to Artificial Intelligence and promote a sense of responsibility among organizations, governments and institutions with the aim to create a future in which digital innovation and technological progress serve human genius and creativity and not their gradual replacement.” (source: PAV).