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Showing posts with label Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rights. Show all posts
Monday, February 12, 2024

Will AI ever be conscious?

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Tom McClelland Clare College Unknown date of post Here is an excerpt: Human consciousness really is a mysterious thing. Cognitive neuroscien...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Trump Is Coming for Obamacare Again

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Ronald Brownstein The Atlantic Originally posted 10 Jan 24 Donald Trump’s renewed pledge on social media and in campaign rallies to repeal a...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?

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David Chalmers Boston Review Originally posted 9 Aug 23 Here are two excerpts: Consciousness also matters morally. Conscious systems have mo...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Humans, Neanderthals, robots and rights

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Mamak, K. Ethics Inf Technol 24, 33 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-022-09644-z Abstract Robots are becoming more visible parts of o...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

How AI is learning to read the human mind

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Nicola Smith The Telegraph Originally posted 23 May 2023 Here is an excerpt: ‘Brain rights’ But he warned that it could also be weaponised a...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

We need an AI rights movement

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Jacy Reese Anthis The Hill Originally posted 23 MAR 23 New artificial intelligence technologies like the recent release of GPT-4 have stunne...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

In the corner of an Australian lab, a brain in a dish is playing a video game - and it’s getting better

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Liam Mannix Sydney Morning Herald Originally posted 13 NOV 22 Here is an excerpt: Artificial intelligence controls an ever-increasing slice ...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

If a robot is conscious, is it OK to turn it off? The moral implications of building true AIs

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Anand Vaidya The Conversation Originally posted 27 Oct 20 Here is an excerpt: There are two parts to consciousness. First, there’s the what-...
Friday, December 11, 2020

11th Circuit blocks South FL prohibitions on 'conversion therapy' for minors as unconstitutional

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Michael Moline Florida Pheonix Originally posted 20 Nov 20 Here is an excerpt: “We understand and appreciate that the therapy is highly cont...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Deinstitutionalization of People with Mental Illness: Causes and Consequences

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Daniel Yohanna, MD Virtual Mentor. 2013;15(10):886-891. Here is an excerpt: State hospitals must return to their traditional role of the ho...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Christians, Gun Rights, and the American Social Compact

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David French The Dispatch Originally posted September 2020 Here is an excerpt: Why would I say that Christians are celebrating Rittenh...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Intelligence, Surveillance, and Ethics in a Pandemic

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Jessica Davis JustSecurity.org Originally posted 31 March 20 Here is an excerpt: It is imperative that States and their citizens quest...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Convict Trump: The Constitution is more important than abortion

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Paul Miller The Christian Post Originally posted 22 Dec 19 Christians should advocate for President Donald J. Trump’s conviction and rem...
Saturday, October 5, 2019

Brain-reading tech is coming. The law is not ready to protect us.

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Sigal Samuel vox.com Originally posted August 30, 2019 Here is an excerpt: 2. The right to mental privacy You should have the right ...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019

N.J. approves bill giving terminally ill people the right to end their lives

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Susan Livio www.nj.com Originally posted March 25, 2019 New Jersey is poised to become the eighth state to allow doctors to write a leth...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

What Is the Right to Privacy?

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Andrei Marmor (2015)  Philosophy & Public Affairs, 43, 1 , pp 3-26 The right to privacy is a curious kind of right. Most people think...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Establishing an AI code of ethics will be harder than people think

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Karen Hao www.technologyreview.com Originally posted October 21, 2018 Over the past six years, the New York City police department has c...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

‘My death is not my own’: the limits of legal euthanasia

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Henk Blanken The Guardian Originally posted August 10, 2018 Here is an excerpt: Of the 10,000 Dutch patients with dementia who die eac...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Samantha’s suffering: why sex machines should have rights too

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Victoria Brooks The Conversation Originally posted April 5, 2018 Here is the conclusion: Machines are indeed what we make them. This m...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

What is the ethics of ageing?

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Christopher Simon Wareham Journal of Medical Ethics 2018;44:128-132. Abstract Applied ethics is home to numerous productive subfields ...