Ethics & intelligence

The questions this work forces

Animal welfare, the moral status of human neural tissue, and how growing a mind compares with building one in silicon.

A digital rendering of a human brain and neural network

Ethics9 min read

The ethics of mice with human brains

The tissue in these mice is immature and the animals were not enhanced. But the ethical questions start long before any mouse gets smarter.

A human hand reaching toward a glowing blue circuit-patterned wall

Ethics, Intelligence8 min read

A half-human mouse brain versus machine AI

ChatGPT learns from oceans of data on silicon. A xenocortical mouse learns from a body, on living neurons grown from human DNA. The comparison says a lot about both.