Responsibility and Automated Decision-Making
In 1979, an IBM presentation included a slide with the following injunction:
Despite this warning, nearly fifty years later computing systems are increasingly used to...
Time as a Utensil
The following essay was published in The Philosopher, The New Basics. Society. Spring 2022.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the way time was...
Technology and Aesthetic Meaning
“…the future of man as his will, as dependent on a human will…so as to make an end of that gruesome dominion of chance...
The Coming Robot Rights Catastrophe
Time to be a doomsayer! If technology continues on its current trajectory, we will soon be facing a moral catastrophe. We will create AI systems...
To Assess Technologies, Bioethicists Must Take Off Their Blinkers
The following piece was originally published in the Hastings Center Report (September-October)
A casual review of the literature reveals mainstream bioethics’ love affair with biomedical technologies:...
Interview with John Tasioulas: The Institute for Ethics in AI
The Philosophy and Technology series attempts to construe the question of technology in the broadest possible sense, assessing the impact to the discipline, as...
Wittgenstein, Feynman, and the Limits of Intuition and Objectivity in Quantum Theory
Richard Feynman, over the course of his long career, wanted to convince students and even the public that quantum theory does not make sense....
Careers in Ontology: An Interview with Professor Barry Smith
In this interview, the Blog’s Philosophy and Technology Series Editor Charlie Taben interviews Barry Smith, who is a Distinguished Julian Park Professor of Philosophy and Professor...
Deadly Drones, Killer Trollies
The following piece was originally published in The Philosophical Salon.
The US military’s remote warfare has recklessly killed hundreds more civilians than previously disclosed, including many...
The Role of the Arts and Humanities in Thinking about Artificial Intelligence
This blog was originally published on the Ada Lovelace Institute website. It has been reproduced under Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0 and with permission from...