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  • Read more: What are Our Duties and Moral Responsibilities Toward Humans when Constructing AI?
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    What are Our Duties and Moral Responsibilities Toward Humans when Constructing AI?

    Much of what we fear about artificial intelligence comes down to our underlying values and perception about life itself, as well as the place of the human in that life. The New Yorker cover last week was a telling example of the kind of dystopic societies we claim we wish to avoid. I say “claim”…

  • Read more: Religion, Health, and Medicine: the Dialectic of Embedded Social Systems
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    Religion, Health, and Medicine: the Dialectic of Embedded Social Systems

    The philosopher in me understands that there are universal principles in logic, mathematics, and in basic scientific tenets such as the law of gravity. Be that as it may, the historian in me recognizes that we inherit epistemologies and ways of thinking from those before us, and from our own historical and cultural contexts. Certain…