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Hollywood A Listers To Star in a Pro-Assisted Suicide Movie
How many pro-euthanasia movies/TV episodes have there been? How many with the opposite message?
Stephen Post and Michael Egnor: Restoring Community Amid Division
In the dialogue on his new book, Dr. Post defines love simply: when the well-being of another person becomes as real and meaningful to you as your own, you love that person
AI’s Sweet Talk: How Artificial Companions Steal Our Humanity
Andrew McDiarmid and Janet Parshall discuss the sometimes tragic consequences of needy people becoming dependent on AI-fueled fantasy relationships
Personhood: What it really means to be human
Are we more like detachable Lego bricks or like parts of a body? A Mind Matters News podcast with Eric Jones explores this
Charlie Kirk Shooting: A Reader Who Lives Nearby Reflects
"Our kids had friends at the event on the university campus. My son's brother-in-law is a police officer who was on scene"
In Connecticut, the Horrors of AI Descend with Full Force
AI as “friends” and “confidants”? David Klinghoffer warns that this way of talking and thinking needs to be recognized as encouraging delusion
AI: Tool or Companion?
Personalized AI systems only make sense in a friendless society.
AI Is Impacting Our Culture — But Not As We Were Told To Expect
Okay, your boss is not a robot. Your doctor is not a chatbot. But here are some things that are actually happening that we might not have expected
Should We Use Generative AI Chatbots to Spark Our Creativity?
What if we become so disconnected from human ways of knowing that real life relationships, desires, and reality itself begins to shrivel away?
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 Can Deceive and Blackmail
Is AI getting out of control?
1960s Chatbot Pioneer Was Right to Worry About What He’d Created
AI “companions” may be dumbing us down intellectually and emotionally
LLMs Are Bad at Good Things, Good at Bad Things
LLMs may well become smarter than humans in the near future but not because these chatbots are becoming more intelligent
No Mark Zuckerberg, AI ‘Friends’ Are Not Good for Mental Health
Zuckerberg's proposed AI friends will not alleviate the epidemic of loneliness and depression and I can tell you a few reasons why
The Last Humanist: What the Digital Age Can’t Replace
My review of Superbloom by Nicholas Carr, perhaps the last critic standing, with thoughts on some of his earlier books
Should the Iconic Stanford Prison Experiment Study Be Retracted?
Within six months of the death of the famous sociologist who devised it, long-simmering questions have risen to the surface
Could Robots Be Programmed to Feel Ordinary Love?
The question is a bit more complex than we might at first think, as the British TV series Humans demonstrates
Philosopher Asks, Why the Toxic War on Masculinity?
Prominent evangelical philosopher Nancy Pearcey is teaching a course on the roots of the “hate men” movement today. Here’s an excerpt from the controversial book it's based on
What Happened to “Third Spaces”?
Many men are lacking the deep community and sense of brotherhood (fraternity) they need to flourish and grow.. Bringing back communal institutions might be crucial for social cohesionA few decades ago, the club was more of a thing. And not the kind where people rave and disco until six in the morning. No, these were “gentlemen’s clubs,” places where guys could separate themselves both from familial and professional venues and enjoy meaningful connection with other men. Anthony Bradley, a scholar at the Acton Institute, shared some of his thoughts and findings on the decline of these “third spaces” and how they’ve been detrimental towards men in particular. The rise of more egalitarian attitudes towards gender, which had the great net benefit of opening the door for more equal opportunity for women, inadvertently led to the decline of these male-centric institutions. Today, we see the result: many men Read More ›
