You are a doctor in a neonatal emergency unit of a hospital. One night, two critical
cases come to you - a wealthy couples new-born baby and an extremely poor couples
new-born baby- are both diagnosed with Disease X. Despite hours of frantic efforts on
your part to keep them alive, tragedy strikes by the time it is dawn and the wealthy
couples baby dies.

Effective Altruism is the view that we should invest energy into figuring out what the most effective way to help others is, and encourages people to act on that basis. Effective Altruists often encourage donations to highly efficient charities, such as the Malaria Consortium.
Long-termism is the view that we should be doing much more to
help future generations. Effective Altruists who are long-termists often advocate for greater preparedness against existential risk, such as hostile AI takeover, or pandemics.

In July of 2021, the Biden Administration imposed new sanctions on Cuba following the Cuban government’s crackdown on demonstrators in the streets of Cuba protesting the
shortages in medicine and food resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden’s policy was being framed by Senator Robert Mendez, Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the son of Cuban immigrants. Mendez has, in the past, been critical of the Obama Administration’s softer line on Cuba.

Progressive rebranding refers to actions undertaken by media companies to rewrite,
reword, or remake works of art that are allegedly offensive or out-of-touch with the
current social norm, to make them more inclusive and sensitive. Such changes are new
to the work of art, and not intended nor included by the original creator of the work.
Recent examples include: The rewriting of Augustus Gloop in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory to be “enormous” instead of “fat”, and the remaking of Aladdin by
Disney to give more independent screen time to the character of Jasmine, who was
previously given almost no independent screen time.

TalkToys are dolls with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and speech recognition software that
enable them to engage in an actual conversation with children (they have a lexicon of
thousands of prescript responses). TalkToys are meant to serve as a companion to the
child, and they are in the late stages of development. Prominent examples of toys that
will be able to talk include Barbie, G.I Joe and Star Wars and Action Figures.

Context Slide: “The right to survival prevails over property,” the court of appeals ruled when reviewing the case of a homeless man who had been given a six month jail sentence and a €100 euro fine for stealing cheese and sausages.