Bad Knowledge

Can There Be Bad Knowledge?

In medical ethics there are debates about when people should be encouraged to get tested for diseases or conditions for which there is no therapy, such as Alzheimer’s disease. In the case of knowing you have a risk or diagnosis of incurable disease, is ignorance really bliss, or does “true happiness” require knowledge? What are the ethics of these "bad knowledge" situations?

How early is too early to find out you've got an incurable disease?
https://www.wired.com/story/alzheimers-disease-dementia-medicine-prediction-ethics/

 

The Woman Who Could Smell Parkinson’s
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/magazine/parkinsons-smell-disease-detection.html

 

Lightning Round

Google hires Character.AI founders
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/02/google-character-ai-noam-shazeer/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-appoints-former-characterai-founder-co-lead-its-ai-models-2024-08-23/