The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced a billion-dollar initiative to confront the rise of artificial intelligence that will involve supporting deep interdisciplinary research into both AI’s promise and its ethical perils.
The Hippocratic Oath, written sometime in the fourth or fifth century B.C.E. by an unknown author in the Greek medical tradition, bound physicians to their patients through a code of care, confidentiality, and restraint. Though the famous phrase “first, do no harm” came later, the spirit endured — shaping how societies have thought about medical duty for roughly 2,500 years.
