Would You Buy A Self-Driving Car That Would Kill You To Save Others?
The problem of programming ethics into autonomous vehicles
The problem of programming ethics into autonomous vehicles
Amnesty International offices around the world to be targeted this month in protest of AI's support for decriminalizing sex work.
Are young Americans actually being seduced by the lure of socialism?
Americans increasingly want and expect adult supervision
Replacing honor and dignity with victimhood
Researchers have used fetal tissue in developing lifesaving medical treatments including the polio vaccine.
Everything old is new again!
What is the self-driving equivalent of flipping the bird?
Just as I predicted seven years ago
"You betcha'," says communitarian scholar Amitai Etzioni
Elon Musk predicts "You can't have a person driving a two-ton death machine."
So let slip the robots of war?
Should parents be allowed to know if their fetus will get Alzheimer's?
The growing state, after all—not the atheist—is religion's biggest rival.
Finding an ethical lobbying line in a fallen age of corporatism
The erroneous belief that only rights violations may be condemned leads too easily to the corollary error that if some conduct is wrong, it must somehow be a rights violation.
The division of human life into the moral and the practical is of recent vintage.
How much easier it would be to bring others to the libertarian position if we realized that they already agree with us in substantial ways?
Because to do otherwise would be immoral.
Pondering the neuroscience of moral platitudes, free will, and sacred values.
A review of Who's In Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
New research finds that nice guys tend to finish first.
Religion and the evolutionary origin of cooperation
A new social psychology study explores the moral formation of the libertarian personality.
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