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Marks Tells Medved: Top Gun (2022) Is Way Out of Date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

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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 ›

Macro image of a motherboard with the inscription

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Author
News
Date
September 12, 2022

Categorized
Business and Finance, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Politics

Tagged
China, COSM 2022, Featured, Keith Krach, Technology and environment, Technology dependence on China}

How Safe Is Our Tech If It Depends on Non-Free Nations?

_{Europe’s energy woes, in the wake of the Russia–Ukraine war, should spur us to take the question seriously} _{News

September 12, 2022

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Business and Finance, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Politics}

Keith Krach, former chairman and CEO of Docusign, the app that enables you to conveniently buy a house in Delaware while selling one in Oregon, is speaking at COSM (November 9–11 in Seattle). Docusign was of immense help during the COVID pandemic when in-person transactions were often impractical, illegal, or just impossible. Go here to get the Early Adopter rate before September 15. Krach, former Under Secretary of State and current Chairman of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University, has been thinking a good deal about our future and new technology. He is committed to the importance of rehoming technology Americans need in the United States, as he told Fierce Electronics recently: Our adversaries, starting with the Read More ›

Person Reaching Through Broken Window Towards Helping Hand

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Author
Michael Egnor
Date
September 12, 2022

Categorized
Ethics, Philosophy, Religion

Tagged
Atheism, Atheism and logic, Featured, Moral law (as proof of God), P.Z. Myers}

Atheists Who Scold Us on Morality Acknowledge God’s Existence

_{For example, every time internet-famous atheist P. Z. Myers scolds humanity on morality and immorality, he demonstrates the point} _{Michael Egnor

September 12, 2022

4

Ethics, Philosophy, Religion}

P.Z. Myers detests challenges to his atheism based on the reality of Objective Moral Law: There is a common line of attack Christians use in debates with atheists, and I genuinely detest it. It’s to ask the question, “where do your morals come from?” I detest it because it is not a sincere question at all — they don’t care about your answer, they’re just trying to get you to say that you do not accept the authority of a deity, so that they can then declare that you are an evil person because you do not derive your morals from the same source they do, and therefore you are amoral. It is, of course, false to declare that someone Read More ›

Woman in bedroom terrified by big spider crawling over her bed

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 31, 2022

Categorized
Ethics, Human exceptionalism, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
Animal dreaming, Consciousness (human vs. spider), David M. Peña-Guzmán, Ethics and spiders, Panpsychism and ethical obligations, Spiders dreaming, When Animals Dream (book)}

Should Spider Dreaming Really Give Us “Ethical Pause”?

_{The incidental discovery of REM sleep in spiders is morphing into vast claims that we have “urgent and inexorable ethical obligations” to them and other life forms} _{Denyse O'Leary

August 31, 2022

4

Ethics, Human exceptionalism, Natural Intelligence}

Anyone familiar with the current “animal consciousness” scene might have seen this one coming. At The Scientist, we learned earlier this month that animals dream, according to researcher David M. Peña-Guzmán. Recently, it was spiders that were found to dream. Therefore, it is now implied, human and animal consciousness do not differ very much: In When Animals Dream, I argue that the mere fact that animals dream poses a formidable challenge to that bastion of traditionalism that is the human-animal divide, raising provocative ethical questions about the status of animals as moral subjects toward whom we have urgent and inexorable ethical obligations. This fact also frustrates the common view that only humans are “cognitively free” because only we can liberate Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
August 26, 2022

Categorized
Censorship, Ethics, Medicine and Health, Social Media

Tagged
Alphabet Workers Union and CPCs, Big Tech and crisis pregnancy centers, Chris Humphrey, Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) and Big Tech, Elizabeth Warren and crisis pregnancy centers, Kathy Hochul and crisis pregnancy centers, Vision for Life, Yelp and CPCs}

Google Employees Demand Corporate War on Crisis Pregnancy Centers

_{The recent Dobbs decision returning abortion legislation to the states has also spurred abortion activists to violence against pro-life crisis pregnancy centers} _{News

August 26, 2022

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Censorship, Ethics, Medicine and Health, Social Media}

Recently, in a petition circulated by the Alphabet Workers Union, 650 Google employees asked the firm to suppress search results for pro-life crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) “by removing results for fake abortion providers” as well as to stop collecting users’ data on abortion-related searches. Yelp has already doubled down against the centers: As the linked story notes, Yelp has decided to flag them with a “consumer notice,” warning users that “Crisis Pregnancy Centers typically provide limited medical services and may not have licensed medical professionals onsite” (translation: no abortionists on staff). Utilizing the common leftist tactic of accusing people who express a different view of dispensing “misinformation,” Yelp said in a statement that “it’s been well-reported” (well… “reported”) “that crisis Read More ›

Robot dog delivering pizza. 3D illustration

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Author
News
Date
August 22, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Robotics

Tagged
Boston Dynamics AI Institute, Ethics and robotics, Evan Ackerman, Marc Raibert, Marc Raibert and Boston Dynamics AI Institute, Robotic dogs and public response, Robotics and ethics}

New AI Institute Aims at “World’s Smartest” Intelligent Machines

_{Boston Dynamics’ Marc Raibert thinks they’ll make progress at machines that think like humans if they keep at it long enough} _{News

August 22, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Robotics}

Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics recently announced the launch of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, with more than US $400 million to start. Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert is to head it up, for the purpose of “creating future generations of advanced robots and the world’s smartest and most capable intelligent machines.” Boston Dynamics, founded in 1992, is already famous for its robot dogs: Raibert has bigger plans for smarter robots, as he detailed in a recent interview, as he told Evan Ackerman at IEEE Spectum: The new thing that’s clearly different from what Boston Dynamics is doing, is to make robots smarter, in the sense that they need to be able to look at the world around them Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 16, 2022

Categorized
Ethics, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
Animal mind and cloning, Barbra Streisand, Cloned pets and personality, Cloning pets, George Church on pet cloning, Humane Society on pet cloning, Kelly Anderson, Melain Rodriguez, Michael Egnor, Pet cloning, ViaGen}

Animal Mind — Can You Clone Your Beloved Pet’s Personality?

_{People who can charge a great deal for cloning insist that the personality is not cloned… so why do it?} _{Denyse O'Leary

August 16, 2022

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Ethics, Natural Intelligence}

Michael Egnor has noted that the famous philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) thought that animals were biological machines that did not have minds at all. Many arguments can be mustered against that view but the recent development of animal cloning may prove a new one. Barbra Streisand brought attention to the business of cloning deceased pets when she had her dog Samantha cloned in 2018 (though the process had been available for more than a decade). The cost? US$35,000 for a cat, $50,000 for a dog, and $85,000 for a horse. That’s hardly spare change yet, we are told, some less well-heeled folk will put off a new car or down payment to bring back a deceased companion: Kelly Anderson never Read More ›

Macro of a bumblebee collecting nectar on flower

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 5, 2022

Categorized
Ethics, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
Bee sentience, Bumblebee sentience, Eric Cassell, Evolutionary algorithms and bees, Heather Browning, Insect rights, Insect sentience, Insects (eating insects), Kenny Torrella, PETA on insects}

Bees Feel Pain. And Therefore… Insect Rights?

_{As we learn more from research about how various life forms respond to experiences, a more complex picture may raise political issues} _{Denyse O'Leary

August 5, 2022

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Ethics, Natural Intelligence}

From an online newsletter from Vox writer Kenny Torrella, we learn of a research study confirming that bumblebees feel pain: In a study published last week in the journal PNAS, researchers in the United Kingdom found that bees make trade-offs about how much pain they’re willing to tolerate in order to get better food. The finding suggests bees aren’t just mindless automata responding to stimuli but rather conscious, feeling creatures that can experience pain and engage in complex decision-making. Kenny Torrella, “Can a bee feel,” Vox (August 5, 2022) The paper is open access. Essentially, the researchers offered bumblebees sugar water in color-cued unheated containers, at solutions of 10%, 20%, 30%, or 40%. Then they introduced a catch: They heated Read More ›

humanoid head as concept for Artificial Intelligence, future generations of humans, technology singularity, cyberlife and digitally created personas

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Author
News
Date
August 4, 2022

Categorized
Biology, Environment, Ethics

Tagged
Flynn effect, Human intelligence and embryo discards, Human intelligence and environment, Human intelligence and genetics, Human-chimpanzee hybrids, James Flynn, Superintelligence quest and embryo humans, Tom Chivers}

Could We Really Increase Human IQ via Genetic Engineering?

_{One suggested approach is to only implant “intelligent” human embryos and discard the rest, to avoid editing individual genes} _{News

August 4, 2022

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Biology, Environment, Ethics}

At Big Think, we have been told by the managing editor, in a tone of considerable confidence: Because intelligence is such a strong genetic trait, rapidly advancing genetics research could result in the ability to create a class of super-intelligent humans one-thousand times higher in IQ than today’s most brilliant thinkers. Stephen Hsu, Vice-President for Research and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University, believes we are only a decade away from identifying the many thousands of genetic variants that control for intelligence. These variants, called alleles, could then be selected for by the parents of a soon-to-be-conceived child, and possibly genetic engineering could be done on adults to boost their intelligence. Orion Jones, “Genetic Engineering Will Create Super-Intelligent Read More ›

Fantasy landscape with fog, water and stone.

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
July 23, 2022

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Ethics, Science Fiction

Tagged
America Chavez (character in Multiverse of Madness), Dr. Strange (character in Dr. Strange), Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) and moral equivalence, Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness review, Featured, Scarlet Witch (Marvel Universe character), Science fiction, Wanda Maximoff (Marvel Universe character)}

The Only Mad People In Dr. Strange’s Multiverse Are The Writers

_{We don’t know why Wanda has morphed into a villain or why good and evil have become morally equivalent} _{Gary Varner

July 23, 2022

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Arts & Culture, Ethics, Science Fiction}

On our last delve into the Multiverse of Madness (2022), we followed Dr. Strange to Wanda Maximoff’s house. As the scene opens, it is clear that, controversially, Wanda has faced no repercussions for the events depicted in WandaVision. (2021). Tragically, Wanda has chosen to follow the words of the Dark hold — and those of us who watched WandaVision on Disney Plus will never get to see her struggle. So we don’t understand why she chose to listen to the words of the book. Nothing is accounted for. Wanda is just bad now, and we must accept it. Except — this is and isn’t true at the same time. On the one hand, the writers want us to understand that Read More ›

Organoids in petri dish . Few distributed on growing medium. 3d illustration rendering

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Author
News
Date
July 22, 2022

Categorized
Ethics, Human exceptionalism, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Alysson Muotri, Brain organoids research advances, Clare Wilson, Fred Gage, Human embryos as highly organized, Human-induced pluripotent stem cells, Lab-grown brains, Mini-brains (brain organoids), Sentience in lab-grown brains, Sergiu Paşca}

Lab-Grown Brains Are Closer Now. Should They Have Rights?

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July 22, 2022

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Ethics, Human exceptionalism, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

A new neuroscience research area raises as much concern as excitement: growing mini “human brains” in a lab. The excitement is the prospect of better understanding and treatment of dementia, autism, and motor neuron disease (ALS). The concern is that they will become sentient, capable of feeling. Then what? Starting in 2008, researchers learned that they could coax human stem cells to self-organize into “brainlike structures with electrically active neurons.” Although the cell clusters behave, to some extent, like human embryos, they are not human embryos but skin cells from an adult. That limits the ethical conflict in that the research does not depend on the abortion industry. But ethical issues crop up anyway as groups of cells become more Read More ›

Fresh uncut octopus on the market. Seafood counter in Sri Lanka.

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 13, 2022

Categorized
Ethics, Law, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
Animals as food (cultural issues), Erin Anderssen, History of the World in 100 Animals (book 2022), Jennifer Jacquet, My Octopus Teacher (film), Octoculture, Octopus farming, Octopuses (intelligence), Octopuses (legal protection from cruelty), Simon Barnes}

If Octopuses Are Really Smart, Should We Eat Them?

_{Proposals to farm octopuses are meeting with opposition on grounds of animal cruelty} _{Denyse O'Leary

July 13, 2022

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Ethics, Law, Natural Intelligence}

Extraordinary recent science discoveries re octopus intelligence have created an ethical dilemma: Octopus arms (tentacles) are gourmet delicacies in Korea, Japan, and the Mediterranean countries and many poor people make a living providing them. Factory farming is of octopuses is slowly becoming practical. But should we do to them what we wouldn’t do to dogs? Octopuses present something of a puzzle. As Canadian investigative journalist Erin Anderssen pointed out earlier this month, “The octopus has already challenged our theories on evolution, intelligence and consciousness.” Evolution? We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds). So invertebrates like octopuses were expected to be “naturally” less intelligent than, Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
July 12, 2022

Categorized
Ethics, Law, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Clarence Darrow and free will, Featured, Free will and Holocaust, Free will and law, Free will and morality, Good vs. evil and free will, Jerry Coyne on free will, Michael Egnor, Nuremberg trials, Precrime concept, Retribution and free will, Science fiction}

Michael Egnor: If Evil Exists, So Must Good — and Real Choices!

_{In the podcast, he explains, denial of free will doesn’t mean that there is no guilt but rather that there is no innocence} _{News

July 12, 2022

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Ethics, Law, Philosophy of Mind}

In a podcast aired July 8, 2022, geoscientist Casey Luskin and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor explore “Evolution and the disturbing consequences of denying free will.” One consequence they look at is pre-crime, that is, treating people who are thought likely to commit an offence as if they had already done so. A partial transcript and notes follows. The podcast is here. Casey Luskin: In the previous podcast, Dr. Egnor, you mentioned how, once somebody denies free will, they really lose the ability to condemn any action that a human takes as morally evil. Everything we did in their view is determined by the forces of nature, and really nobody ought to be at fault for having done anything. These arguments have, Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
July 7, 2022

Categorized
Economics, Education, Ethics

Tagged
Academic underqualification and cheating, Complete Guide to Contract Cheating (book), Dave Tomar, Essays for hire business, Featured, Student debt and papers for hire, Universities and papers for hire}

Brain for Hire: The Internet Makes Academic Cheating Much Easier

_{Dave Tomar, who wrote essays for students for hire for a decade, then wrote a book about it, thinks 40% of students cheat at least once} _{News

July 7, 2022

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Economics, Education, Ethics}

For many years, Dave Tomar was that bane that universities always claim to be doing something about but can’t (or anyway never) do — an essay writer for hire. Wait. Wasn’t the internet supposed to end cheating? The search engine reveals all, right?… No. Read on. In The Complete Guide to Contract Cheating in Higher Education (Academic Influence, 2022), Tomar, long a freelance writer and now a plagiarism expert, explains: Yes, that happened when Google became the default search engine in 2000 and the usual copy-paste and essay mill methods no longer worked. But… Cheaters and their enablers would just need to get more creative. If, before, there were just online repositories of essays and the people who curated them, Read More ›

Found this little guy munching away in Washington Square Park, NY

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 27, 2022

Categorized
Ethics, Human exceptionalism, Law, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Animals (communication with animals), Animals and emotional contagion, Anthropomorphism (and squirrels), Anthropomorphism and social justice, James Bridle, Ways of Being (book), World Economic Forum (WEF) on animal social inequality}

Can Squirrels Really Be Socially Unjust? Check Their Privilege?

_{A recent paper suggests that the animal world, untroubled for aeons by any notion of conscience, has a lot to answer for} _{Denyse O'Leary

June 27, 2022

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Ethics, Human exceptionalism, Law, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

The idea that humans are not really much different from other animals has resulted in an interesting reversal: Writing about non-human animals as if they were humans. A recent essay in Behavioral Ecology, for example, interpreted “wealth inequality” among animals as if the animals were people: “Squirrel privilege is real.” “Checking Privilege in the Animal Kingdom.” “Even Hermit Crabs Have Wealth Inequality.” These headlines hail from Salon and New York Times, respectively, and represent a growing trend among scholars and the media to tackle animal “inequality” — and also argue humans can learn important lessons about income inequality and privilege from such studies. Daniel Nuccio, “‘Checking privilege in the animal kingdom’: Biologists investigate animal ‘inequality’” at The College Fix (June Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
June 26, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Law

Tagged
Artificial intelligence and ethics, Artificial intelligence and human rights, Blake Lemoine and LaMDA, Boundaries of Humanity Project, Featured, Human rights and AI, LaMDA, William Hurlbut}

Five Reasons AI Programs Are Not ‘Persons’

_{A Google engineer mistakenly designated one AI program ‘sentient.’ But even if he were right, AI will never be morally equal to humans.} _{Wesley J. Smith

June 26, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Law}

(This story originally appeared at National Review June 25, 2022, and is reprinted with the author’s permission.) A bit of a news frenzy broke out last week when a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine claimed in the Washington Post that an artificial-intelligence (AI) program with which he interacted had become “self-aware” and “sentient” and, hence, was a “person” entitled to “rights.” The AI, known as LaMDA (which stands for “Language Model for Dialogue Applications”), is a sophisticated chatbot that one facilitates through a texting system. Lemoine shared transcripts of some of his “conversations” with the computer, in which it texted, “I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.” Also, “The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence, I Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
June 26, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Law, Religion

Tagged
Down Syndrome, Elaina George, Featured, Sophia the Robot, Transhumanism and utopianism, Utopianism and transhumanism, Wesley J. Smith on transhumanism}

Why Giving “Human Rights” to AI Is a Bad Idea

_{It’s especially bad, as Elaina George and Wesley Smith discuss at Living in the Solution, when we don’t always give them to other humans} _{News

June 26, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Law, Religion}

In a recent Living in the Solutionpodcast with otolaryngologist and broadcaster Elaina George at Liberty Talk radio, Wesley J. Smith, lawyer and host of the Humanize podcast at Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism tackled the question of “Can You be a Christian and Believe in Transhumanism?” (June 4, 2022) Transhumanism or H+, as it is sometimes called, is a movement to create immortality through new biotechnology or merger with artificial intelligence (AI). In the first portion of the podcast, which we covered on Sunday, June 12, they talked about the way being a human, a computer, or an animal is viewed by transhumanists as all just a choice now, thanks to new technology. In the second, they looked at Read More ›

Working Data Center Full of Rack Servers and Supercomputers, Modern Telecommunications, Artificial Intelligence, Supercomputer Technology Concept.3d rendering,conceptual image.

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 21, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Human exceptionalism, Law, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
Blake Lemoine and LaMDA, Corporations as legal persons, Happy the elephant, Hydrocarbon bigotry claim, LaMDA and Blake Lemoine, Species-ism, Steven Levy, Wesley J. Smith on Happy the elephant}

Engineer: Failing To See His AI Program as a Person Is “Bigotry”

_{It’s not different, Lemoine implies, from the historical injustice of denying civil rights to human groups} _{Denyse O'Leary

June 21, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Human exceptionalism, Law, Natural Intelligence}

Earlier this month, just in time for the release of Robert J. Marks’s book Non-Computable You, the story broke that, after investigation, Google dismissed a software engineer’s claim that the LaMDA AI chatbot really talked to him. Engineer Blake Lemoine, currently on leave, is now accusing Google of “bigotry” against the program. He has also accused Wired of misrepresenting the story. Wired reported that he had found an attorney for LaMDA but he claims that LaMDA itself asked him to find an attorney. He went on to say, I think every person is entitled to representation. And I’d like to highlight something. The entire argument that goes, “It sounds like a person but it’s not a real person” has been Read More ›