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
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
How to Do Good Better
The case for effective altruism, according to one of its founders.
Future Perfect, Vox
Topics: Altruism Ethics Morality Progress Values
Against Moral Sainthood
As philosopher Susan Wolf argues, life is far more meaningful and rich if we do not aim at being morally perfect.
Aeon
Topics: Altruism Ethics Happiness Meaning Morality
Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
Philosopher Tim Maudlin sees advances in free will, morality, and the meaning of quantum mechanics.
Cross-Check, Scientific American
Topics: Consciousness Ethics Free Will Multiverse Quantum Mechanics
Moral Machines
How culture changes values.
Nature
How to Let Go of Being a “Good” Person — And Become a Better Person
What if your attachment to being a “good” person is holding you back from actually becoming a better person?
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Topics: Bias Decision-Making Ethics Morality
Want to Live Longer? Consider the Ethics
Several companies are trying to develop life extension methods that could enable some people to live far longer. There are some ethical dilemmas.
The Conversation
Topics: Death Ethics Immortality Social Inequality
You Can Deny Free Will Exists and Not Be a Jerk
New research finds no relationship between ethical behavior and belief — or disbelief — in free will.
Pacific Standard
Topics: Ethics Free Will Morality
Are These Dots Purple or Blue? Your Answer Might Not Be As Reliable As You Think
When blue dots or threatening faces become rare, people’s concepts of “blue” or “threat” expand.
Science
Topics: Ethics Progress
Should You Tell Everyone They’re Honest?
People try to live up to their labels.
Nautilus
Topics: Compassion Ethics Generosity Honesty Morality
Does the Trolley Problem Have a Problem?
What if your answer to an absurd hypothetical question had no bearing on how you behaved in real life?
Slate
Topics: Ethics Joshua Greene Morality
What Are the Most Important Moral Problems of Our Time?
Will MacAskill is a co-founder of the effective altruism movement, a philosophy that tries to answer the question: How can we do as much good as possible?
TED
Topics: Altruism Ethics Morality Progress
What Makes Deceit Such a Hard Habit to Break?
New research gets at the psychology behind serial misconduct.
Kellogg Insight
Topics: Adam Waytz Agency Deception Ethics Honesty Morality
Have Your Momos and Eat Them, Too
The situational flexibility of meat eating is part of Tibetan Buddhism itself.
Topics: Ethics Science & Religion Dialogue
Science-Tested Tips to Be a Better Person
Research suggests several ways we can all become more virtuous.
The Wall Street Journal
Topics: Ethics Morality
‘The Character Gap’: How Good Are We Really?
From a young age, humans receive messages from school, religion, and society about developing a strong moral compass and learning how to do “the right thing.” But according to expansive psychological research, there is a gap between how good we are and how good we think we are.
WUNC
Inside The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
As developers design machines that teach themselves, questions remain over humans’ ability to effectively interact with artificially intelligent computers.
The State of Things, WUNC
Topics: Ethics Intelligence Kurt Gray Learning Morality Robots Technology
What Would the Average Human Do?
Artificial intelligence researchers want to teach computers to make moral choices based on millions of human survey responses.
The Outline
Topics: Decision-Making Ethics Morality
What Are the Ethical Consequences of Immortality Technology?
If we treat death as a problem, what are the ethical implications of the highly speculative ‘solutions’ being mooted?
Topics: Death Ethics Immortality
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