by Tim Weinhold | Jan 26, 2019 | Personal Perspective
Why ‘AI and Faith’: The Tension Between Materialism and Faith The Tension Between Materialism and Faith In his provocative book, The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers and the Future of Humanity, Byron Reese inadvertently provides answers to a question for...
by Tim Weinhold | Oct 1, 2018 | Personal Perspective
Drowning in Fake News and Bias In (even reasonably) normal times, Alex Jones would be the poster boy, par excellence, for fake news. On his Infowars website, and in a blizzard of social media, Mr. Jones has zealously promoted an alternative theory regarding what took...
by Daniel Rasmus | Sep 12, 2018 | Personal Perspective
Before Writing Ethics for Robots, Let’s Get Humans to Apply their own Ethics First The August 4 copy of New Scientist included an article titled Robot Laws ( in the digital version the title expanded to Robot laws: Why we need a code of conduct for AI – and fast),...
by Tim Weinhold | Jul 31, 2018 | Personal Perspective
Governance by Algorithm — Orwell in the 21st Century Most of the threats posed by AI are decidedly uncertain. The threat posed by singularity — the point when robots gain general intelligence and potentially topple their human overlords — remains unclear, it’s...
by Tim Weinhold | Jul 25, 2018 | Personal Perspective
Tracy Kidder’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, The Soul of a New Machine, came to mind recently as I read an article by Olivia Goldhill provocatively titled “Can Machines be Spiritual?” Inferentially in Kidder’s book, and explicitly in Goldhill’s piece, the issue...
by natasha | Apr 18, 2018 | Personal Perspective
Over the past few weeks, two blockbuster stories have competed for public attention. President Trump continues to generate, by any ordinary standards, an astonishing amount of headline coverage. There’s the ongoing Mueller/Russia investigation, of course. Now there’s...
