Brian D. Earp, PhD
@briandavidearp.bsky.social
A/Prof Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy & Psychology (ctsy), National University of Singapore. Director, Oxford-NUS Centre for Neuroethics & Society. Co-Editor, Journal of Medical Ethics (BMJ)
Presenting on the personalized patient preference predictor & digital “psychological” twins in medicine to support patients & resist digitally enhanced paternalism at a medical humanities conference at Tsinghua University today
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Presenting on the personalized patient preference predictor & digital “psychological” twins in medicine to support patients & resist digitally enhanced paternalism at a medical humanities conference at Tsinghua University today
New publication 🚨 "Ethics and Regulation of Human Brain Organoid Research: Recommendations from The Asia Pacific Neuroethics Working Group" - in press with Asian Bioethics Review: buff.ly/aIDcD76.
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
New publication 🚨 "Ethics and Regulation of Human Brain Organoid Research: Recommendations from The Asia Pacific Neuroethics Working Group" - in press with Asian Bioethics Review: buff.ly/aIDcD76.
Throwback to me playing Ray Gosling (Rosalind Franklin’s PhD student who, as it happens, took the famous photograph) in the Seattle premiere of Photograph 51 with Kirsten Potter as Franklin. Fascinating & complex portrait of Franklin & her role in discovery of DNA structure. Play by Anna Ziegler.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Throwback to me playing Ray Gosling (Rosalind Franklin’s PhD student who, as it happens, took the famous photograph) in the Seattle premiere of Photograph 51 with Kirsten Potter as Franklin. Fascinating & complex portrait of Franklin & her role in discovery of DNA structure. Play by Anna Ziegler.
Looking forward to speaking and learning at this first ever Asian Summit on Intersex Health today and tomorrow in Taipei 🦋
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Looking forward to speaking and learning at this first ever Asian Summit on Intersex Health today and tomorrow in Taipei 🦋
Subtle. (Newcastle, Australia)
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Subtle. (Newcastle, Australia)
McGill study reveals knowledge gap about psychedelic therapies in adolescents www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
McGill study reveals knowledge gap about psychedelic therapies in adolescents www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
A really inspiring couple of days in Kuala Lumpur
November 1, 2025 at 5:31 AM
A really inspiring couple of days in Kuala Lumpur
New publication 🚨 "Is Consent-GPT valid? Public attitudes to generative AI use in surgical consent" - led by @ethicsinthenews Jemima Allen and published in AI & Society: buff.ly/ZPvpCKC.
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM
New publication 🚨 "Is Consent-GPT valid? Public attitudes to generative AI use in surgical consent" - led by @ethicsinthenews Jemima Allen and published in AI & Society: buff.ly/ZPvpCKC.
New publication 🚨 "Even with Diet and Exercise, Ozempic Use Reduces Perceived Effort and Praiseworthiness of Resulting Weight Loss" - led by Maria Bachmakova and published in Social Science & Medicine: buff.ly/b91XR9m
October 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
New publication 🚨 "Even with Diet and Exercise, Ozempic Use Reduces Perceived Effort and Praiseworthiness of Resulting Weight Loss" - led by Maria Bachmakova and published in Social Science & Medicine: buff.ly/b91XR9m
Could use this with undergrads instead of the experience machine and the like? “Experiment” by Wisława Szymborska
September 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Could use this with undergrads instead of the experience machine and the like? “Experiment” by Wisława Szymborska
New publication 🚨 "AI and the Future of Academic Peer Review" - led by Sebastian Porsdam Mann, with @cam.ac.uk Mateo Aboy, Joel Seah, Zhicheng Lin, Xufei Luo, @biowhal.bsky.social, Hazem Zohny, Timo Minssen, and Julian Savulescu: buff.ly/kP5Y6tN
September 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
New publication 🚨 "AI and the Future of Academic Peer Review" - led by Sebastian Porsdam Mann, with @cam.ac.uk Mateo Aboy, Joel Seah, Zhicheng Lin, Xufei Luo, @biowhal.bsky.social, Hazem Zohny, Timo Minssen, and Julian Savulescu: buff.ly/kP5Y6tN
New publication 🚨 "Privacy in Human-AI Relationships" - in Philosophy & Technology, led by @ethicsinthenews Chris Register and Maryam Khan (@NUS_CBmE), with @AlbertoGiubili1 and @juliansavulescu www.researchgate.net/publication/...
September 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
New publication 🚨 "Privacy in Human-AI Relationships" - in Philosophy & Technology, led by @ethicsinthenews Chris Register and Maryam Khan (@NUS_CBmE), with @AlbertoGiubili1 and @juliansavulescu www.researchgate.net/publication/...
My conversation with Laurie Paul on love and transformative experience briandavidearp.substack.com/p/edited-tra...
September 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
My conversation with Laurie Paul on love and transformative experience briandavidearp.substack.com/p/edited-tra...
Peter Singer now weighing in on reflective equilibrium for our methods in bioethics workshop.
September 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Peter Singer now weighing in on reflective equilibrium for our methods in bioethics workshop.
John McMillan lecturing on Rawls and reflective equilibrium and influence on bioethics - part of our Methods in Bioethics Workshop at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore
September 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
John McMillan lecturing on Rawls and reflective equilibrium and influence on bioethics - part of our Methods in Bioethics Workshop at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore
Haha… Arras on the Principles of Biomedical Ethics
September 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Haha… Arras on the Principles of Biomedical Ethics
How AI and big data can be used to spread ideologies: bypassing rational thought … from a slide by Tsinghua student Jiang Renping
September 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
How AI and big data can be used to spread ideologies: bypassing rational thought … from a slide by Tsinghua student Jiang Renping
Prompting, vetting, vouching. Enough for authorship?
Can someone be an author who doesn’t write a single word?
Link to new work open.substack.com/pub/briandav....
Can someone be an author who doesn’t write a single word?
Link to new work open.substack.com/pub/briandav....
September 7, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Prompting, vetting, vouching. Enough for authorship?
Can someone be an author who doesn’t write a single word?
Link to new work open.substack.com/pub/briandav....
Can someone be an author who doesn’t write a single word?
Link to new work open.substack.com/pub/briandav....
Great line up for our Digital Duplicates workshop at @NUS_CBmE, co-organised and co-sponsored with our friends at University of Bucharest, including Cristina and Voinea and Mihaela Constantinescu 😊
September 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Great line up for our Digital Duplicates workshop at @NUS_CBmE, co-organised and co-sponsored with our friends at University of Bucharest, including Cristina and Voinea and Mihaela Constantinescu 😊
Clint Hurshman - our new postdoc at CbME at NUS - giving an excellent talk on contextual general digital duplicates at our Digital Duplicates conference! 😊
September 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Clint Hurshman - our new postdoc at CbME at NUS - giving an excellent talk on contextual general digital duplicates at our Digital Duplicates conference! 😊
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong giving keynote lecture at inaugural neuroethics workshop sponsored by @NUS_CbME and @OxNeuroEthics, with guests from China, Japan, Thailand. — What Motivates People to Do Bad Acts
September 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong giving keynote lecture at inaugural neuroethics workshop sponsored by @NUS_CbME and @OxNeuroEthics, with guests from China, Japan, Thailand. — What Motivates People to Do Bad Acts
New post 🚨 The Risk of More Reliable AI briandavidearp.substack.com/p/the-risk-o... -- Maybe hallucinations are good?
September 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
New post 🚨 The Risk of More Reliable AI briandavidearp.substack.com/p/the-risk-o... -- Maybe hallucinations are good?
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on moral AI in healthcare and other settings - welcome to Singapore, Walter!
September 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on moral AI in healthcare and other settings - welcome to Singapore, Walter!