AI Ethicist Kate Darling: ‘Robots Can Be Our Partners’
The MIT researcher says that for humans to flourish we must move beyond thinking of robots as potential future competitors.
The Guardian
Topics: Ethics Flourishing Robots Technology
Do We Have Free Will? Maybe It Doesn’t Matter
Nautilus
Topics: Belief Determinism Ethics Free Will Morality
Should Artificial Intelligence Be Used in Weapons?
Selmer Bringsjord, professor of cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, explores this question.
The Academic Minute
Topics: Ethics Robots Technology
Who Should Stop Unethical A.I.?
At artificial-intelligence conferences, researchers are increasingly alarmed by what they see.
The New Yorker
Topics: Ethics Technology
Can Wearing Masks Incorrectly Be a Clue to Someone’s Dishonesty?
Someday we might be able to predict people’s dishonesty by simply reading it right off of their face.
Forbes
Topics: Ethics Honesty
The Psychology of Fairness: Why Some Americans Don’t Believe the Election Results
When a decision is made and people don’t get the outcome they want, they often tend to see it as unfair. Here’s why.
The Conversation
Topics: Bias Decision-Making Ethics Fairness Group Identity Morality Values
Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than Us?
A.I. developers are committing to end the injustices in how their technology is often made and used.
The New York Times
Topics: Bias Ethics Robots Technology
Just How Dishonest Are Most Students?
Many are tempted to cheat, but honor codes are surprisingly effective in curbing the problem.
Topics: Education Ethics Honesty Morality Values
New Psychology Study Suggests Intellectual Humility Has Important Sociopolitical Consequences
The research, published in the Journal of Personality, indicates that Americans who are humble about their level of knowledge are less likely to view people who disagree with them as morally or intellectually inferior.
PsyPost
Topics: Ethics Intellectual Humility Morality
You Can Get a Robot to Keep Your Lonely Grandparents Company. Should You?
The ethical costs and benefits of a companion robot — during the pandemic and beyond.
Future Perfect, Vox
Topics: Aging Ethics Flourishing Loneliness Robots Technology
Why We Should Crowdsource AI Ethics (and How to Do So Responsibly)
We asked 3 million people how self-driving cars should resolve moral dilemmas. Was that a good idea?
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Ethics Morality Technology Values
Why Won’t the Sin Wash Away? When Thinking Ethically Goes Awry
Is thinking about ethics pathological? When a person rewashes her hands despite knowing that they’re already clean, it’s pathological. Is it similarly pathological to ruminate about what we should do?
Psyche
Topics: Ethics Morality
Justifying the Means: What It Means to Treat All Suffering Equally
Peter Singer believes there are no moral absolutes, and that logic and calculation are better guides to moral behavior than feelings and intuitions.
Hidden Brain, NPR
Topics: Decision-Making Ethics Morality Rationality Values
Our Better Angels: What We Lose When We Assume People Are Bad
Is there a hidden cost to the rest of us when we put bad actors at the center of our thinking? Do the measures we put in place to curtail the selfish inadvertently hurt our capacity to do right by others?
Topics: Ethics Generosity Rationality Values
Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Make Better Decisions During a Crisis?
New research indicates that AI may help people cooperate and make ethical decisions faster and with fewer errors.
Medium
Topics: Cooperation Decision-Making Ethics Morality
When We’re Wrong, It’s Our Responsibility as Scientists to Say So
Upon learning that something they had been promoting for nearly a decade may not be true, the original authors confronted the issue directly by running new and more rigorous studies, and the original journal was open to publishing a new peer-reviewed article documenting the correction.
Scientific American
Topics: Ethics Honesty Morality
How Morally Egalitarian Are We?
Researchers explore the ethics of who we think should be saved by an automated vehicle in an accident.
Cosmos
Topics: Azim Shariff Ethics Kurt Gray Morality Robots Technology Values
Can Artificial Intelligence Increase Our Morality?
Just as we define our technologies, they define us.
Psyched!, Psychology Today
Topics: Ethics Morality Technology
Is It Okay to Sacrifice One Person to Save Many? How You Answer Depends On Where You’re From
A new study uses the famous trolley problem to show how our culture shapes our moral beliefs.
AI Religion Is Upon Us. Welcome to the Future
Robot priests can bless you, advise you, and even perform your funeral.
Vox
Topics: Ethics Faith Religious Change Religious Groups Robots Spirituality Technology
Why Do Groups Protect Immoral Group Members?
When responding to moral violations within their group, people may experience a tension between their motivation to protect the group and their ethical beliefs.
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Ethics Group Identity Morality Reputation
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