When It Comes to Moral Decisions, Testosterone Doesn’t Seem to Do Much
The researchers admit that every one of their hypotheses was wrong.
Ars Technica
Topics: Decision-Making Empathy Ethics Morality
Tainted by Association
Would you carve a roast with a knife that had been used in a murder? Why not? And what does this tell us about ethics?
Aeon
Topics: Ethics Luck Morality
Are We Intuitively Honest or Dishonest?
People may be intuitively dishonest, but only if it does not harm others.
Decisions in Context, Psychology Today
Topics: Decision-Making Ethics Honesty
How Your Brain Invents Morality
Neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland explains her theory of how we evolved a conscience.
Vox
Topics: Animal Studies Empathy Ethics Genes Morality Neurons Reductionism
Moral Science Confirms People Behave Better When They Think They’re Being Watched
Most people follow some form of moral code, but to what extent they abide by these rules does differ in various situations.
The Conversation
Topics: Decision-Making Ethics Morality
AI and the Social Sciences Used to Talk More. Now They’ve Drifted Apart
Research shows that the gap between these disciplines is growing, which could make it harder to address social and ethical problems.
Kellogg Insight
Topics: Ethics Metascience Technology
What “Game of Thrones” Reveals About Moral Decision-Making
The fantasy series highlights profound questions of philosophy and psychology.
Scientific American
The Case Against A.I. Controlling Our Moral Compass
People seem to be already averse to machines making moral decisions.
Ethical Systems
Topics: Ethics Kurt Gray Mind Perception Morality Robots Technology
Why Do Whistleblowers Risk Speaking Out?
Adam Waytz is digging deeper into the act of whistleblowing to understand why some people risk everything to speak out against wrongdoings.
TEDMED
Topics: Adam Waytz Ethics Fairness Morality Robots Values
How Humans and Machines Can Live and Work Together
We must optimize the division of labor between humans and machines to ensure that human + machine is superior to either working in isolation.
CNN Business
Topics: Adam Waytz Ethics Robots Technology
When Good Science Goes Bad
How much of science is a pursuit of truth for its own sake? And what happens when it leads to unanticipated consequences?
Sinai and Synapses
Topics: Ethics Flourishing Knowledge Reality
AIs Should Have the Same Ethical Protections as Animals
Insofar as researchers in the AI community aim to develop conscious AI or robust AI systems that might very well end up being conscious, we ought to take the matter seriously.
Topics: Consciousness Ethics Morality Robots Technology
Does Power Corrupt? How Powerful People React in Moral Dilemmas
Do people with power respond to moral dilemmas, such as the trolley problem, differently?
Character & Context, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Topics: Decision-Making Ethics Morality Power
How Will New Technologies And AI Challenge What It Means to Be Human?
Paul Root Wolpe’s work focuses on the social, religious, ethical, and ideological impact of medicine and technology on the human condition.
TEDxAtlanta
Topics: Ethics Technology Values
When Employees Feel Grateful, They’re Less Likely to Be Dishonest
According to new research.
Harvard Business Review
Topics: David DeSteno Ethics Gratitude Honesty Morality Self-Control
Study Suggests It’s Time to Debate the Morality of Machines
At what point do humans hold robots responsible for harmful actions?
TVNZ
A Study of Ethicists Finds They’re No More Ethical Than the Rest of Us
A study of 417 professors published last week in Philosophical Psychology found that, though the 151 ethics professors expressed stricter moral views, they were no better at behaving ethically.
Quartz
Topics: Ethics Morality
Your (Future) Car’s Moral Compass
As self-driving technology booms, cars are already making choices with moral implications. How do you program for an ethics that we can all agree on?
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Ethics Morality Robots Technology Values
Misbehaving: Being Clever and Wicked Is a Form of Creativity
Dark creativity uses the creative process to do something socially unappealing and guided by self-interest.
Topics: Creativity Ethics Honesty Morality
A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics Offers a Troubling Look Into Our Values
To figure out how autonomous vehicles should respond during potentially fatal collisions, a group of scientists set out to learn what decisions human drivers would make.
The New Yorker
Topics: Azim Shariff Ethics Morality Robots Technology Values
Giving Algorithms a Sense of Uncertainty Could Make Them More Ethical
Algorithms are best at pursuing a single mathematical objective — but humans often want multiple incompatible things.
MIT Technology Review
Topics: Ethics
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