Killing the Runaway Trolley Problem

The nearly half-century-old “Trolley Problem” is a runaway…

Structure in AI, Law, Ethics, the World and the Mind

There are two kinds of (AI, Law, Ethics…

The Ethics of Autonomous Cars

If, as I claim, the Trolley Problem is not a good example of the ethics…

The Zeroth Principle of Bioethics

I was recently whacked upside the head by the difference between…

On ethics and humanizing intelligent machines

The importance of embodied intelligence

Back in early March, Jeff Hawkins of Numenta wrote an article for Re/code debunking the idea of “the Singularity” and the notion that AI is humanity’s greatest…

What is Reason? Intelligence? Reflections on Epistemology

My two major intellectual endeavors of the last year or so keep bringing me to the same apparently simple, but really difficult question. “What is reason or intelligence?”

Sophia: Uncanny, and untrustworthy?

Hanson Robotics demonstrated a new human-like robot called “Sophia” at SXSW recently. CNBC covered Sophia in this video interview with David Hanson. At the time, I was not on Medium, but I wrote a longish Facebook post in response to the video. It seems timely, so…

Masquerading as Human

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a lightbulb. Cybersecurity & the ethics of…

AI: Cart Before the Horse. It’s what the brain does, not how fast it does it.

The “Political Orientation” of AIs.

Studies are suggesting popular AIs, chatbots, are politically…