Reading Time: 7 minutesIn Praise of Empathy : Practical Ethics or Ethical Practice in Business In our professional lives, who has never witnessed or been part of a complicated, conflicting, or even aggressive communication situation? Who has never...
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Reading Time: 9 minutesSaint Nicholas and the AI MYTH : About the Creation of Myths. December 6, Saint Nicholas Day, is the perfect moment to ponder on the essence, the creation and the “sustainability” of myths. What makes...
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat if Ethics Does Not Exist? This provocative piece suggests that ethics has no meaning in absolute terms, but it is just a by-product of social activities. It also discusses some plausible practical consequences. What...
Reading Time: 9 minutesThe NFT Tsunami : about (N)othingness (F)renzy and (T)iepolo The recent explosion of NFTs was a catalyst to many questions around non-fongible tokens and the art world. NFTs are at the crossroad of art, technology,...
Reading Time: 7 minutesSerendipity ou Algorithme QUID SERENDIPITY ? The word Serendipity is attributed to Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797). Philosopher and writer of Gothic novels including The castle of Otranto, he was also Member of...
Reading Time: 7 minutesLiving Robots (Xenobots): A medical revolution or Ethical minefield ? What are Xenobots? “They’re neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. They’re a new class of artefact: a living, programmable organism” said...
Reading Time: 5 minutesProbability, causality, and how they impact responsibility “Artificial intelligence” algorithms are probabilistic and lack causality. Can we still call them “intelligent”? and can we trust them to make decisions? The smoking gun England’s choice of...
Reading Time: 3 minutes The hidden Beauty… The sky with the mysteries, Making a journey among the stars. Of all the stars I see you shining bright, As you who made a content beautiful Through your light...
Reading Time: 6 minutes“The Chinese Room” by John Searle – No “mind” in a computer ! “Some years ago the philosopher John Searle badly shook the little world of artificial intelligence by claiming and proving (so he said)...
Reading Time: 12 minutesCOVID-19 Vaccine Passports – between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Vaccinations have been rolling out now in many countries. There is a real interest in how we can move out again with some...
Reading Time: 11 minutesLanguage is key. Language makes us communicate. We give meaning to words and words shape our reality. Shape us. Our reality on Artificial Intelligence is blurred. Our view is foggy. People are confused. Numerous debates...
Reading Time: 5 minutesSelf-Esteem and Ethics Be yourself, all the other personalities are already taken – Oscar Wilde How to link self-esteem to ethics? To understand how self-esteem can mesh with the notion of ethics, it is important...
Reading Time: 9 minutesThe Mummy vs the Cyborgs: a (bio)epic battle ahead! Ethics came first, then history Repeat with me: Ethics came first, then history. Truth, Balance, Order, Harmony, law, morality and justice are seven magical principles dated...
Reading Time: 4 minutesCounting carbon… As a teenager, I still remember certain Sundays spent revising my physics-chemistry exams, with, if I am to believe my family, undeniable consequences on my organic mood … Long have I been cursing...
Reading Time: 10 minutesThe robots Sophia, Ai-da, Erica and other gynoids Female robots, gynoids, fembots : on a mission to soften the sharp metallic edges University of Oxford, Cambridge 2019. The artist is addressing the crowd while looking...
Reading Time: 4 minutesCan a company be ethical ? When, a few days ago, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos sent a letter to the shareholders, it reminded me of the ideas put forward by Anthropologist Yuval Noah Harari (Author...
Reading Time: 6 minutesDoes the Universe have a musical soul? Do algorithms are a musical soul?
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere are several ways to obtain an “artificial intelligence” (AI), and each one is associated with different degrees of control and predictability, with immediate ethical implications. Getting started: this “intelligence”, those “intelligences” The rest...
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Bioethics judge medical data practices in times of COVID-19 COVID-19 created a Tsunami of medical data that needs to be managed and protected in secure repositories to be...