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Effective altruism

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The impact of different methods of increasing the intensity of compassion in engineering ethics cases

Despite the growing interest in emotions in engineering education, empirical research on incorporating them into engineering ethics education is limited. Therefore, we designed this experimental study to assess how different methods for integrating compass ...

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Playing Brains: The Ethical Challenges Posed by Silicon Sentience and Hybrid Intelligence in DishBrain

The convergence of human and artificial intelligence is currently receiving considerable scholarly attention. Much debate about the resulting Hybrid Minds focuses on the integration of artificial intelligence into the human brain through intelligent brain- ...

2023

The diversity of moral preferences: Evolutionary foundations and some implications in environmental economics

Boris Thurm

Empirical evidence suggests that there exists substantial heterogeneity in individuals' social preferences. However, there is little theoretical basis supporting this observation and economic models often assume that all individuals are identical. Hence, t ...

EPFL2019

PATHOLOGICAL SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON THE SHORT-TIME OBJECTIVE INTELLIGIBILITY MEASURE

Hervé Bourlard, Ina Kodrasi, Parvaneh Janbakhshi

Impaired speech intelligibility in motor speech disorders arising due to neurological diseases negatively affects the communication ability and quality of life of patients. Reliable and cost-effective measures to automatically assess speec ...

2019

Pathological Speech Intelligibility Assessment based on the Short-Time Objective Intelligibility Measure

Hervé Bourlard, Ina Kodrasi, Parvaneh Janbakhshi

IEEE2019

Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program

Ambrogio Fasoli, Denis Gillet, Alexis Berne, Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Ingrid Le Duc, Samuel Bendahan, Delphine Preissmann, Jérome Feige, Luca Bragazza, Antonin Danalet, Adrian Christian Holzer

To tackle the challenges of the 21st century, future scientists and engineers have to understand the interplay between societal challenges and technical solutions as early as possible in their education. They also have to develop the communication and the ...

Tempus Publications2016

Geneva's philanthropists around 1900: a field made of distinctive but interconnected social groups

Thomas David

This article analyses the social profile of Geneva's philanthropists around 1900. It shows that, contrary to what the literature on philanthropy argues, philanthropists belonged to varied social groups defined by diverse forms of capital (economic, social ...

Cambridge Univ Press2016

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