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What does it mean to be human in an age of artificial intelligence?

Bioethicist, President and CEO of @HastingsCenter Vardit Ravitsky and bioethicist Insoo Hyun dive into one of the oldest—and most urgent—questions of our time: how do science, ethics, and culture shape our evolving understanding of humanity? Are we defined by our rational minds, our emotions, or our ability to care for future generations?

As part of the Museum of Science’s Being Human initiative—produced in collaboration with The Hastings Center—this episode of The Big Question explores the moral and philosophical challenges we face as AI advances and humans navigate aging, end-of-life care, and cognitive decline.

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Chapters:
00:00 – What Does It Mean to Be Human?
01:10 – Ethics, Identity & the Human Lens
04:45 – Explaining Humanity to an Alien
07:30 – Language, Self-Awareness & Emotion
12:50 – What Makes Us Unique
18:00 – Rationality, Authenticity & Autonomy
24:30 – AI and Human-Like Thinking
30:00 – Aging & the Meaning of Mind

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Vardit Ravitsky is President and CEO of the Hastings Center for Bioethics, an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute that is among the most prestigious bioethics and health policy institutes in the world. She is Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and was a Full Professor at the Bioethics Program, School of Public Health, University of Montreal. She is Past-President of the International Association of Bioethics, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and of The Hastings Center.

Ravitsky’s research focuses on the ethics of genomics and reproduction, as well as the use of AI in biomedical research. It is funded by Canada’s leading funding agencies and the National Institutes of Health. She has published over 250 articles and commentaries on bioethical issues and has given over 300 talks world-wide and over 400 media interviews.

Insoo Hyun, PhD is the Director of the Center for Life Sciences and Public Learning at the Museum of Science, Boston. He received his BA and MA in Philosophy with Honors in Ethics in Society from Stanford University and his PhD in Philosophy from Brown University. Since 2005, Dr. Hyun has been heavily involved with the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), helping draft its international research guidelines and serving twice as the chair of the ISSCR Ethics Committee. Dr. Hyun’s research interests go well beyond stem cell ethics and policy to include emerging technologies in the life sciences and new strategies for community engagement in bioengineering.

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