The Hastings Center

a co-founder of the Society for Jewish Ethics and founding chair of the HHMI Bioethics Board.

She is a fellow at the Hastings Center.

Her books include Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter and Second Texts and Second Opinions, Essays Toward a Jewish Bioethics.

Please help me welcome our speakers.

And, you know, Sean and I comment, we could talk about an AI-related story almost every week, and lots of weeks we do.

But this one comes from the Hastings Center.

which is still the preeminent bioethics think tank in the world today.

And it begins with an account from a Pakistani gentleman who describes the situation like this.

I don't know.

But in any event, on the plane home, I sat next to a guy named Dan Callahan who was setting up a place called the Hastings Center, just by chance.

And he said, you should come up to us because it was close to New York City and see what we do.

And I went up there as the Xerox operator and get lunch guy.

You find a tremendous difference in terms of the ethical standards in favor of the oath of Assaf.

Dr. Callahan, who was the head of the Hastings Institute, one of the leading ethicists in the world, wrote a book called Setting Limits, in which he proposes beyond a given arbitrary age society set, besides the relief of suffering, no medical care should be given.

This is Dr. Callahan, one of the leading ethicists in the world.

There was a slide by one of the Swedish scientists.

So the distinction, it's really around this idea of the dead donor rule.

The dead donor rule is two sentences that in, uh, 1999, a gentleman named John Robertson in a Hastings Center essay, uh, stated.

It's like, one, vital organs are recovered only from patients who are dead, so dead donor.

Uh, then two, organ recovery may never be the cause of death.