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Over the last few months, BP (Before Pandemic), I’ve been asking myself “how do we Wendell Berry AI?” To put Wendell Berry’s name next to AI would seem as much an oxymoron as “AI and Faith” does to many, because Berry is famously a minimalist when it comes to...

In Scenario Planning, AI and Covid-19 will challenge assumptions about what factors shape our future. Even for those who developed scenarios in which the Covid-19 outbreak occurred, that it has occurred means those scenarios collapse into a set of certainties. The...

Welcome to the new normal!  Are we having fun yet?  Have we invented new forms of fun yet?  I don’t mean to make light of a very serious situation but I also don’t want to fall into a gloom and doom scenario either. As a Christian and as a state employee tasked with...

Pestilence is stalking the land, the shelves of Costco are emptying out, and the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse is up and riding.  Or is it just a serious case of the flu? Whatever is happening biologically with this strain of coronavirus, “going viral” more than...

As artificial intelligence grows and continues to become a part of human society, governments, organizations, companies and experts have been publishing lists of ethical principles — “AI Creeds,” if you will — in order to establish legal and moral guidelines for the development of AI as we move into the future.

When I was a graduate student in philosophy in the 1970s, I had the ambition to go on the job market with two specializations, philosophy of physics and technology ethics. That proved to be a mistake when, for the first and last time, I gave a technology ethics job...