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Hallway the emergency room and outpatient hospital. 3d illustration

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
August 14, 2023

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, Culture of Death, Death, Dystopia, Euthanasia, Human exceptionalism, Mental illness}

The Small Steps That Lead to Dystopia

_{Revisiting a 1993 article warning about the future of assisted suicide} _{Wesley J. Smith

August 14, 2023

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Ethics}

Editor’s Note: The following piece was originally published in Newsweek in June 1993. Today is my 76th birthday,” the letter began. “Unassisted and by my own free will, I have chosen to take my final passage.” Suicide. My friend Frances died in a cold, impersonal hotel room after taking an overdose of sleeping pills, with a plastic bag tied over her head suffocating the life out of her body. Frances was not a happy woman. She had family troubles. She suffered from chronic lymphatic leukemia and was facing the difficult prospect of a hip replacement. She also had a chronic nerve condition that caused her to feel a burning sensation on her skin. But Frances was lucid, aware and involved. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
July 12, 2023

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Assisted Suicide, Canada, CBC, Euthanasia, Medicine, Ontario, Wesley J. Smith}

Patients Opting for Euthanasia in the Face of Painful Circumstances

_{Receiving assistance takes a long time. But to be made dead? Not so much.} _{Wesley J. Smith

July 12, 2023

3

Ethics, Medicine and Health}

So much compassion! A disabled woman with quadriplegia named Rose Finlay in Canada has asked to be euthanized because she is destitute, and the disability benefits she applied for would not arrive in time for her to be properly housed and cared for. From the CBC story: A quadriplegic woman in Bowmanville, Ont., has applied for medical assistance in dying (MAID), saying it’s easier to access than the support services she needs to live her life comfortably. Receiving assistance takes a long time. But to be made dead? Not so much: The single mother of three boys previously supported her family with earnings from disability advocacy work through her company, Inclusive Solutions. That’s also how she could afford to hire her own support Read More ›

People connected people by lines. Cooperation and collaboration, news gossip spread. Teamwork. Society concept. Social science relationships. Marketing, dissemination of trends and information

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 11, 2023

Categorized
Ethics, Peer Review

Tagged
Cathleen O’Grady, Dan Ariely, Data Colada, Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, Eric P. Newcomer, Evilicious (2013), Francesca Gino, Honest Truth About Dishonesty (Harper 2012), Joseph Simmons, Leif Nelson, Rebel Talent (book 2018), research dishonesty claims, Therese Joffre, Uri Simonsohn}

Is There a Boom in Research Dishonesty?

_{Or do some academics just feel sure they won’t get caught? Or that, if they do, it somehow doesn’t matter?} _{Denyse O'Leary

July 11, 2023

5

Ethics, Peer Review}

What to make of this news stream? ● Distinguished Professor Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School was recently accused by other academics of falsifying data in a number of studies, including one on dishonesty, where she was a co-author, Professors Joseph Simmons, Uri Simonsohn and Leif Nelson of University of Pennsylvania, Escade Business School in Spain, and University of California, Berkeley, respectively, accused Gino of the fraud on their blog Data Colada. “Specifically, we wrote a report about four studies for which we accumulated the strongest evidence of fraud,” they wrote, stating they shared their concerns with Harvard Business School. Therese Joffre, “Harvard ethics professor allegedly fabricated multiple behavioral science studies” at The College Fix, June 28, 2023 Gino, currently Read More ›

equipment and medical devices in modern operating room

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
June 22, 2023

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
bioethics, Canada and Euthanasia, Daily Mail, Euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, Medical Ethics, National Review, Quebec, Wesley J. Smith}

Medical Association is “Neutral” on Assisted Suicide

_{This is a matter of the gravest ethical concern} _{Wesley J. Smith

June 22, 2023

3

Ethics}

How in the world can a medical association be neutral on granting doctors a license to kill or assist the suicide of their patients? This is a matter of the gravest medical ethical concern, an action, remember, that was strictly proscribed 2,500 years ago in the Hippocratic Oath. Utter Cowardice But yield to the pressures of the activists is what the UK’s Royal College of Surgeons has done, in an act of utter cowardice based on a survey answered by only 19 percent of its members. From the Daily Mail story: The Royal College of Surgeons is no longer opposed to assisted dying and is now ‘neutral’, it has been announced. The organisation’s council members voted after discussing survey results, which showed an appetite for change, a Read More ›

Doctor hand holding a stethoscope listening to heartbeat

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 21, 2023

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
bioethics, Canada, Euthanasia, Health Care, Medical Ethics, The Corner, Wesley J. Smith}

“Harm Reduction” is Euthanasia’s New Euphemism

_{Bioethics is growing increasingly monstrous. And that matters.} _{Wesley J. Smith

May 21, 2023

5

Ethics}

Once killing the sufferer becomes a societally acceptable means for ending suffering, there is no end to the “suffering” that justifies human termination. We can see this phenomenon most vividly in Canada, because it is happening there more quickly than in most cultures. For example, a recent poll found that 27 percent of Canadians polled strongly or moderately agree that euthanasia is acceptable for suffering caused by “poverty” and 28 percent strongly or moderately agree that killing by doctors is acceptable for suffering caused by homelessness. I can’t imagine that being true ten years ago before euthanasia became legal. Euthanasia mutates a society’s soul. Killing as “Harm Reduction” This kind of abandonment thinking finds enthusiastic, albeit not unanimous, expression among secular bioethicists. In fact, two Canadian bioethicists just Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
May 9, 2023

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics

Tagged
Abortion, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Human exceptionalism, infanticide, Moral value, National Review, Peter Singer, Princeton, transhumanism, Wesley J. Smith}

Abortion: Switching Off a Computer?

_{This is the kind of thinking that results from rejecting the intrinsic moral value of human life} _{Wesley J. Smith

May 9, 2023

3

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics}

This is the kind of thinking that results from rejecting the intrinsic moral value of human life. Princeton University bioethicist Peter Singer — who is most famous for secularly blessing infanticide — just compared abortion to turning off a computer. He first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value (which for him, as described below, need not be human). From the Yahoo News story: We asked internationally renowned moral philosopher Professor Peter Singer whether AI should have human rights if it becomes conscious of its own existence. While Professor Singer doesn’t believe the ChatGPT operating system is sentient or self-aware, if this was to change he argues it should be given some moral status. Read More ›

Cat hunter with a caught mouse in her mouth

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 3, 2023

Categorized
Ethics, Law, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
Animal moral responsibility claims, Animal rights activism, Ed Simon, Human rights and animal rights movement, Miha Krofel, Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), Raegan Scharfetter, Steven Wise}

Can Animals Be Held Criminally Responsible for Their Acts?

_{While the idea is handled provocatively in philosophy literature, in practice, animals are envisioned as plaintiffs, not defendants, in animal rights cases} _{Denyse O'Leary

January 3, 2023

7

Ethics, Law, Natural Intelligence}

In an essay at Psyche, Ed Simon, a journalist who investigates the eclectic, looks at the history/mythology of trying animals like pigs and rats for criminal offenses. He sees an opportunity there for animal rights activism: Dismissing animal trials as just another backwards practice of a primitive time is to our intellectual detriment, not only because it imposes a pernicious presentism on the past, but also because it’s worth considering whether or not the broader implications of such a ritual don’t have something to tell us about different ways of understanding nonhuman consciousness, and the rights that our fellow creatures deserve. From our metaphysics, then, can come our ethics, and from our ethics can derive politics and law. There need Read More ›

Abstract apocalyptic background - burning and exploding planet . digital art style, illustration painting

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
December 31, 2022

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Ethics, Science Fiction

Tagged
Charly (character in Orvilles 3), EMP device in Orville series, Featured, Isaac (robot in Orvilles 3), Kaylon (characters in Orville), Kaylon Primary in Orville series, Kelly Grayson (character in Orville series), Krill (characters in Orville series), Moclans in Orville sci-fi series, Orville Season Three Episode 9, Talla (character in the Orville series), Teleya (character in Orville series), Union (in Orville series)}

Should a Woman Die in Order to Save a Race of Robots?

_{In The Orville, Episode 9, Charly is confronted with that very choice} _{Gary Varner

December 31, 2022

7

Arts & Culture, Ethics, Science Fiction}

In Part 1 of my review of Orville Season Three, Episode 9, Charly and Isaac had invented a doomsday EMP device that can annihilate the robotic Kaylon. Ed doesn’t want to use the device to wipe out the entire robotic species because he thinks they are alive, though why he thinks so is never made clear. But, oh well. The Union decides to offer the Kaylon a peace treaty, and the robots accept the deal. However, unbeknownst to our heroes — such as they are — one member of the Union decides it would be better to destroy the Kaylon, and hands the device over to the humanoid Moclans and the reptilian Krill, who have recently formed an alliance. The Read More ›

An extreme close up image of metal paper clips

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Author
News
Date
December 27, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Programming, Religion

Tagged
AI superintelligence, Artificial intelligence and ethics, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans ( Farrar Straus and Giroux 2019), Intelligence theory, Melanie Mitchell, Nick Bostrom}

Santa Fe Prof Dissects End-of-World Super-AI Claims

_{There seems to be little communication, she notes, between people concerned about sci-fi AI risks and people concerned about predictable everyday risks} _{News

December 27, 2022

5

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Programming, Religion}

Santa Fe Institute professor of complexity Melanie Mitchell takes issue — in a gentle way — with those who warn about the dangers of superintelligent machines (AI alignment) destroying us all: In one scenario, for example, Oxford Future of Humanity Institute’s Nick Bostrom developed a scenario by which a super AI, told to make paper clips, might use up the world’s resources in doing so. Her comment: To many outside these specific communities, AI alignment looks something like a religion — one with revered leaders, unquestioned doctrine and devoted disciples fighting a potentially all-powerful enemy (unaligned superintelligent AI). Indeed, the computer scientist and blogger Scott Aaronson recently noted that there are now “Orthodox” and “Reform” branches of the AI alignment Read More ›

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
December 24, 2022

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Ethics, Robotics, Science Fiction

Tagged
Charly (character in Orvilles 3), Ed Mercer (Orville character), EMP attack in Orville series, Featured, Isaac (robot in Orvilles 3), Kaylon (characters in Orville), Krill (characters in Orville series), Moclans in Orville sci-fi series, Teleya (character in Orville series), Union (in Orville series)}

Is It Technically Genocide If We Kill a Planetful of Robots?

_{Orville Season 3, Episode 9, features an EMP-like device that could wipe out the robotic Kaylon} _{Gary Varner

December 24, 2022

7

Arts & Culture, Ethics, Robotics, Science Fiction}

This is the best episode of the third season, but there was still plenty to question about the ethical underpinnings. The first scene shows the Krill’s Supreme Chancellor, Teleya, forming an alliance with the Moclans, who have just been ousted from the Union. This doesn’t make any sense. The Moclans hate women. Teleya is a woman. Now, the writers do take the time to address this discrepancy, but it’s a superficial attempt, and therefore, not enough to convince the viewer that this alliance could really happen. Stop and consider who the Moclans are: They don’t just have a bias against women. They hate women. So much so that they turn every child on their planet into a man. There is Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 21, 2022

Categorized
Ethics, Peer Review, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology

Tagged
Adolph Hitler, Adrian Desmond, Anton Lavey, Charles Darwin, Daniel Gasman, Darwin’s Sacred Cause (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009), Darwinian Racism (Discovery Institute 2022), Descent of Man (1871 and 1974), Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), George Mosse, Hitler’s Ethic (Palgrave 2009), James Moore, Might Is Right (1896), Nazis and Darwinism, Peter Bowler, Ragnar Redbeard, Richard Weikart, Robert Richards, Was Hitler a Darwinian? (University of Chicago Press 2013), White Evangelical Racism (University of North Carolina Press 2021), Yuval Noah Harari}

When Scholars Simply Don’t Want To Believe Something Obvious…

_{… they are very good at developing clever arguments to avoid seeing it} _{Denyse O'Leary

December 21, 2022

8

Ethics, Peer Review, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology}

This article was originally published in Salvo 62 (Fall 2022) under the title “The Whitewashing.” In Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), University of California historian Richard Weikart demonstrated painstakingly that the Nazis had developed an ethic based largely on applying Darwinian evolution principles to government. Scholars have since tried hard to obscure the connection, most likely because they believe in Darwinism and see it as science. Any suggestion that the Nazis were avid Darwinists too is unseemly and must be refuted by any and all means. With racism very much in current news, Weikart has focusing in Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism (Discovery Institute Press, 2022) on the way Read More ›

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
December 17, 2022

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Ethics, Science Fiction

Tagged
Bortus (character in the Orville series), Dolly Parton avatar in Orville series, Ed Mercer (character in Orville series), Featured, Heveena (character in the Orville series), Kelly Grayson (character in Orville series), Klyden (character in the Orville series), Moclans in Orville sci-fi series, Moclus (planet in Orville series), Topa (character in the Orville series), Union (in Orville series)}

The Orville 3 8: The Writers Finally Figured Out Moral Ambiguity

_{Is it right to endanger the lives of many to save one? The Orville crew must confront that in the case of the Moclan girl Topa} _{Gary Varner

December 17, 2022

7

Arts & Culture, Ethics, Science Fiction}

Judging by my mixed emotions regarding the Episode 8 from Season 3, I’d say the writers did fairly well with tackling a morally ambiguous story. There are still problems, but nothing that damages the story. For once, the writers do not scream their opinions at the audience. They even chose two likable characters to act as surrogates for the opposing points of view. As the story opens, Topa wants to meet Heveena, the female Moclan who defended her in court when she was a baby and tried to prevent the all-male (by preference) race from turning her into a boy. Heveena was unable to convince the Moclans to spare Topa, but the young girl later learned the truth and was Read More ›

A jay in its beak holds an acorn. A colorful Eurasian jay sits on a thick oak branch. Close-up. Autumn. Natural blurred background. Wild nature.

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 4, 2022

Categorized
Ethics, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Delayed gratification in animals, Eurasian jays, Marshmallow Test and jays, Self-control in humans, Self-control in jays}

Researchers: More Intelligent Jays Show More Self-Control

_{The researchers say that the same relationship holds true for cuttlefish, chimpanzees, and humans} _{Denyse O'Leary

November 4, 2022

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Ethics, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

A recent study finds that Eurasian jays can pass a version of the “Marshmallow test” and that the smarter jays had the greatest self-control. The original Marshmallow test tested children to see if they could resist eating one marshmallow if they were offered two later. So enterprising researchers decided to try it on smart birds: To test the self-control of ten Eurasian jays, Garrulus glandarius, researchers designed an experiment inspired by the 1972 Stanford Marshmallow test — in which children were offered a choice between one marshmallow immediately, or two if they waited for a period of time. Instead of marshmallows, the jays were presented with mealworms, bread and cheese. Mealworms are a common favourite; bread and cheese come second Read More ›

male in protective hazmat suit disinfect public isolated spaces, carrying barrels, pathogen respiratory quarantine coronavirus covid-19 concept

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
October 22, 2022

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Ethics, Science Fiction

Tagged
Dr. Finn (Orville character), Ed Mercer (character in Orville series), Featured, Gordon Malloy (character in Orville series), Isaac (robot in Orvilles 3), Kalarr Expanse (area in Orville series), Kelly Grayson (character in Orville series), Krill (characters in Orville series), Orville Season 3 Episode 2, Paul Christie (character in Orville series)}

The Orville Episode 2: Bacterial Assimilation? — It Gets Messy

_{A ship that crew members investigate turns out to be a deadly mixture of mechanical — and organic — material} _{Gary Varner

October 22, 2022

8

Arts & Culture, Ethics, Science Fiction}

Episode 2 of Season 3 opens with the Orville crew beginning its negotiations with the Krill, an aggressive reptilian species that has joined a temporary alliance with the Planetary Union of flight-capable species to counter the new threat from the Kaylon, an artificially intelligent species. A Krill moment: The Orville group begin by discussing routes through the Krill territory, so the Union can explore the regions of space on the other side. The discussion grows tense when the admiral who has boarded the Orville for the negotiations, Admiral Paul Christie, mentions exploring the Kalarr Expanse (the “Shadow Realm”). The Krill become nervous about this request, telling Ed Mercer and Kelly Grayson, and Christie that demons dwell there. And that they Read More ›

Neural networks of the human brain. 3d illustration of abstract nerve centers. Electrical impulses in brain. Bright full color

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
October 21, 2022

Categorized
Ethics, Neuroscience

Tagged
Brain organoids, Crakers (in MaddAddam Trilogy), Featured, Human brain organoid, Human brain organoid vs. fetal tissue, Human brain organoids (ethical issues), Human brain organoids (how used), MaddAddam Trilogy (2013), Margaret Atwood, Pigoons (in MaddAddam Trilogy)}

Rats with Human Brains? The Real Story About Brain Organoids

_{Human brain organoids use adult stem cells from volunteer donors; they bypass the use of fetal tissue from abortions} _{Heather Zeiger

October 21, 2022

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Ethics, Neuroscience}

In Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy (2013) , the characters in the first book navigate a dystopian near-future with few ethical boundaries. Chicken has been genetically modified to be nothing more than meat and a mouth. For entertainment, they watch either pornography or televised executions. One of the central characters, the scientist who made the genetically engineered humans, ends up unleashing a synthetic pathogen intended to rid the world of evil. The excesses are reminiscent of Earth as described in the Flood narrative in the Bible (“Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.” Genesis 6:11). As in the Biblical account, a “flood” occurs when the synthetic pathogen ends up killing most of humanity. The remaining Read More ›

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Author
Richard W. Stevens
Date
October 7, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Law

Tagged
AI in the courtroom, AI in the courtroom limitations, Almond Alliance, Almond Alliance of California v. Fish & Game Commission, Bumble bees ruled to be fish, California bees are fish decision, Deep learning and legal decisions, Featured, Honey bees in decline, Section 45 (California)}

Did the Court Really Say Bees Are Fish?

_{And would an AI-run court — which some propose — make a different decision? Not here because California law allows the interpretation} _{Richard W. Stevens

October 7, 2022

8

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Law}

See headlines like: “Great Day” For Bumblebees as Californian Court Rules That They Are Fish and: Bees are fish, California court rules You’d believe, on reading them, that a California court recently ruled that bees are fish. Another eyeroll-worthy court decision! Readers here might muse, “An artificial intelligence-run legal system would never make such a crazy ruling!” The Seemingly Boring Narrow Issue Let’s skip past the exciting headlines. The California Court of Appeal in Almond Alliance of California v. Fish & Game Commission faced the issue of “whether the bumble bee, a terrestrial invertebrate, falls within the definition of fish, as that term is used in the definitions of endangered species, threatened species, and candidate species” under specific sections of Read More ›

An advanced CPU printed with a flag of USA on a neon glowing electronic circuit board. Illustration of the concept of United States made high-end micro chips.

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
September 27, 2022

Categorized
Business and Finance, China, Ethics, Politics, Programming

Tagged
China, Chips Act (European equivalent), CHIPS+ Act (2022), CHIPS+ Act (2022) critics, Derek Scissors, Doug Ducey, Featured, Klon Kitchens, Taiwan, Taiwan and advanced microchips, Taiwan and China, Taiwan microchips industry, Taiwan sovereignty, Tsai Ing-wen}

What Difference Has the CHIPS Act Made to the U.S. and Taiwan?

_{We need to first look at the broader picture of what the CHIPS Act is intended to do} _{Heather Zeiger

September 27, 2022

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Business and Finance, China, Ethics, Politics, Programming}

In a previous article, I discussed the semiconductor industry and Taiwan’s supremacy in manufacturing microchips, the foundry portion of the semiconductor supply chain. Now let’s look at the U.S. perspective on the semiconductor industry and its relationship to Taiwan. In order to do that, we have to talk about the CHIPS+ Act Congress passed a bipartisan bill, the CHIPS and Science Act in July, after a year of negotiations in committee. President Biden signed the act into law on August 9 and the CHIPS Act Implementation Strategy was launched on September 6 through an executive order. CHIPS, or “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors,” is a $250B initiative that incentivizes businesses to bring semiconductor manufacturing, research and innovation back to Read More ›

Blockchain blocks and their hexadecimal hash values conceptual vizualization 3D render

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
September 25, 2022

Categorized
Cryptocurrency, Ethics, Religion

Tagged
Bitcoin and Scripture, Blockchain, Featured, Scripture and blockchain compared}

Modern Bitcoin’s Surprising Lesson About Ancient Scripture

_{It turns out there’s a striking parallel between the historical record of scripture and the blockchain ledger} _{Robert J. Marks

September 25, 2022

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Cryptocurrency, Ethics, Religion}

This article was published in The Stream (September 13, 2022) and is republished with permission. Can we trust the authenticity of the New Testament scriptures? Trust is foundational in the acceptance of scripture. There’s an interesting lesson to learn from a very modern system of trust: money. Even Bitcoin, believe it or not. An Exchange of Trust We’ll start with old-fashioned familiar money. Why is a twenty dollar bill worth $20? It’s just a small sheet of paper, after all. The answer is trust. We trust the piece of paper has value because its worth is backed by the United States government. We also trust that Walmart will give us $20 worth of Doritos if we give them a twenty Read More ›

Army Aerospace Engineers Work On Unmanned Aerial Vehicle / Drone. Uniformed Aviation Experts Talk, Using Laptop. Industrial Facility with Aircraft for: Surveillance, Warfare Tactics, Air Strike

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Author
News
Date
September 16, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Military

Tagged
Artificial intelligence and ethics, Drones and g-force, Drones vs. pilots, Featured, Michael Medved, Non-Computable You (book), Qassem Soleimani, Robert J. Marks, Top Gun movies vs. real world military technology, Top Gun: Maverick (1986), Top Gun: Maverick (film 2022)}

Marks Tells Medved: Top Gun (2022) Is Way Out of Date

_{Computer science prof Robert J. Marks argues in Non-Computable You, that in the 21st century, drones offer significant advantages over fighter pilots} _{News

September 16, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Military}

In the “Top Gun, HAL 9000, and Jobs of the Future” podcast (September 15, 2022), WBC director Robert J. Marks discusses a theme from his new book Non-Computable You with talk show host Michael Medved: Can drones should replace pilots in warfare? Dr. Marks, a professor of computer engineering at Baylor University, is also the author of The Case for Killer Robots: https://mindmatters.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Mind-Matters-Episode-204-Robert-J-Marks.mp3 A partial transcript, notes, and Additional Resources follow. Michael Medved: Why shouldn’t we be able to replace all those hotshot pilots, like the ones being trained in the movie Top Gun: Maverick — one of the most successful movies ever made, by the way, in terms of its box office receipts? That’s showing pilots doing death-defying, astonishing Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
September 14, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Education, Ethics

Tagged
Anti-cheating software effectiveness, Dave Tomar, Debora Weber-Wulff, Proctorio}

Study: AI Fails To Catch Cheaters on an Exam

_{In a test of the Proctorio system, students who were told to try to cheat found a variety of ways to fool the system} _{News

September 14, 2022

5

Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Education, Ethics}

Is AI the answer to student cheating on tests? Not that you’d know it from a recent study of AI detection system Proctorio at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Proctorio tracks students’ eye movements and body language while taking exams to flag “suspicious” behavior. So, as Vice tells it, 30 computer science student volunteers were told to take a first year exam that that system supervised. Six were told to cheat, five were told to act suspiciously without really cheating, and the rest were told to just write the test: The results confirmed that Proctorio is not good at catching cheaters. The system did not flag any of the cheaters as cheating. Some used virtual machines, a known Read More ›