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Is it ethical to use complex mini-brains for artificial intelligence?

Brain organoids could be more effective than silicon-based AIs at certain tasks. But as they grow more complex, when should we step in to protect their welfare, asks Michael Le Page

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Is it ethical to use complex mini-brains for artificial intelligence?

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How talking to your future self can improve your health and happiness

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How talking to your future self can improve your health and happiness

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The Experience Machine review: How our brains predict the daily world

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FHKTG9 Catholic Cathedral Church, Jakarta, Indonesia. Image shot 2015. Exact date unknown.

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Movie clip reconstructed by an AI reading mice's brains as they watch

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A rat brain (red) with a grafted human brain organoid (green)

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Human neurons implanted into a rat's brain respond to flashing lights

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‘Love hormone' may not be crucial for social bonding after all

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The covid-19 virus gets into the brain – what does it do there?

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Sneaking drugs into the brain could treat conditions like Alzheimer's

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Human brain model on doctor hand. Doctor using pencil to demonstrate brain anatomy

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The human brain can be squished 10 times as easily as polystyrene foam

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Specific brain markers could help diagnose children with ADHD

Physical differences in the brains of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and those who don't have the condition could help diagnosis

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Air pollution likely to be causing dementia, say UK science advisers

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How do we sense time? The brain cells that order our memories

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Crows may owe their intelligence to an abundance of certain neurons

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Brain scanning studies are usually too small to find reliable results

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