Reading Time: 7 minutes Human Rights, Robot Wrongs: Being Human in The Age of AI Far away from being a dry and indigest legal manifesto, Human Rights, Robot Wrongs by Susie Alegre is a richly researched, techno-philosophical reflection on what...
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Reading Time: < 1 minute 🎉 FANTASTIC NEWS 🎉 ✊ “SWARM ETHICS: A New Collective and Decentralized Ethics in the Digital Age” , a paper by Daniele PROVERBIO and Katja RAUSCH got #accepted to the International Conference on Computer Ethics:...
Reading Time: 8 minutes Why did Annie Duke’s book catch our attention when talking about ethics? How can “thinking in bets” be relevant for ethical decision-making? Analyzing the process of decision-making is nothing new. Ever since advertising and the adjacent...
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) that...
Back to Future #1: Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002) – “Ethics cannot be articulated! Ethics is acted.”
Back to Future #1: Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002) – “Ethics cannot be articulated! Ethics is acted.”
Reading Time: 10 minutes HEINZ VON FOERSTER (1911-2002) Austrian-American “Weltmensch” Born in the imperial Vienna in 1911, Heinz von Foerster, was throughout his long life blessed with the legendary Viennese flair and humor. He described himself as a...
Reading Time: 7 minutes The “uncanny valley” in robotics In 1970, the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori from the Tokyo Institute of Technology coinded the concept of the “uncanny valley”. In robotics, the “uncanny valley” is a hypothesis : “We are...
Reading Time: 6 minutes Isaac Asimov, an American science-fiction author, invented the 3 Laws of Robotics for one of his futuristic short stories from I, Robot (1950). The term "robot" is borrowed from the Czech science-fiction author Havel Čapek.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Aristotle, father of classical Western ethics Aristote and Happiness Born in 384 BC, in Stagira, a son of a family of doctors, Aristotle was the disciple of Plato. He founded his own school, the Lyceum, with...
Reading Time: 5 minutes 5 ethical theories for modern times From Aristote to Floridi Obviously, the first of the 5 ethical theories listed in this article is Aristotle’s virtue ethics. He is the founding father of Western ethics and inspired...