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AI Creeds and Confessions
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.
The Good News about Technology Ethics
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...
“Identity” Rules On-Line Access (and Offline Too)
Knock Knock ... Who’s there – and what can I let you in to do? In both the real and virtual world this question is no joke as it gets to the heart of the security and well being of a system. As more and more of our lives are lived online and automated systems are...
Religious Intelligence: Why we should not fear robot priests
It is hard to find balanced articles on AI now-a-days. Thankfully, Sigal Samuel’s piece on Robot Priests is a refreshing exception. Avoiding sensational claims and click-bait titles, Sigal provides a well balanced report on how robots are becoming part of...
Nine Months Later: An Assessment of an Evangelical Framework for Artificial Intelligence
On April 11 of this year, The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission unveiled a new ethical framework and set of principles, called Artificial Intelligence: An Evangelical Statement of Principles, in a crowded room in Washington, D.C. This marked the first time that...
Where the Trolley Problem is Useful in Autonomous Vehicle Technology
There is considerable backlash against the idea that the trolley problem is a useful thought experiment to explore the ethics of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology. While it is true that there are many conceptual pitfalls in its application, the trolley problem is...