+ the ethics of AI ghosts
| | | | More than a million people have fled their homes in the short time since Israel began its assault on Lebanon. Several hundred thousand have sought refuge in Syria and Iraq and it can't be long before Lebanese civilians appeal to the European Union for help. Can this help be provided without repeating the mistakes of the 2015 migration crisis? Much has been learnt since then but EU nations are still not ready for what might be about to happen if the situation in the Middle East gets worse. The situation in Ukraine, meanwhile, is already worse. And the EU is woefully unprepared here, too. Viktoriia Lapa from Bocconi University is warning that there doesn't appear to be a plan in place for how to engage with Russia after the war ends, whatever the outcome, which she sees as a dangerous and unrealistic approach. And in the interests of re-energising the dwindling hopes for a Ukrainian victory, she believes it's time to have a serious conversation about putting boots on the ground. As it's Halloween, we're taking a historical look at the supernatrual by asking a deceptively simple question: why do we imagine ghosts as wearing white sheets rather than appearing before us in the buff? The answer is one part sociology and two parts philosophy. And in the Halloweens yet to come, we may find ourselves talking to a AI ghosts. We might think that if tech companies can reproduce versions of our loved ones, we won't miss them so much when they're gone. But what if simulating a person who has passed just ends up making our grief worse? |  | Laura Hood Senior Politics Editor, London | |  Barah Mikaïl, IE University Refugees bring irrefutable economic benefits, but political will for accepting them in Europe is very weak. |  Viktoriia Lapa, Bocconi University The European Union needs a plan to support Ukraine to victory – and the beginnings of a plan to re-engage Russia after the war. | | |  Johanna Berneron, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (Anses) Europe's regulation on chemicals is imperfect but essential for public health. A reform may streamline processes and increase penalties, but there is concern that lobbying could undermine it. | |  David W. Versailles, PSB Paris School of Business; Valérie Mérindol, PSB Paris School of Business A European DARPA might answer the challenges listed in the 2024 Draghi Report, provided that the governance and management of European innovation programmes are drastically modified. |  Damián Tuset Varela, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya By producing AI simulations of deceased people, private companies can leverage grief for profit. | |  Shane McCorristine, Newcastle University The issue of ghost clothes is interesting for historians of the supernatural because, like a loose thread, pulling at it starts to unravel some of the assumptions about matter in spiritualism. | | | | | -
Javier Erro Garcés, Universidad de Navarra Our research team closely studies plants and soil to develop fertilisers that don't harm the environment. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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