University Of California Fires Ethics Program Director For Refusing COVID Vax
By Joseph M. Hanneman Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, the longtime professor of psychiatry at the University of California–Irvine School of Medicine who sued the university over…
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We Invited An AI To Debate Its Own Ethics In The Oxford Union – What It Said Was Startling
By Dr Alex Connock, University of Oxford and Professor Andrew Stephen, University of Oxford Not a day passes without a fascinating snippet on the ethical…
Why There is a Civic and Moral Duty to Oppose Tyrannical Bureaucracies
By Barry Brownstein The searing Russian novel Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is one of the greatest examinations of totalitarianism ever written. Based on…
Do Not Give Up Your Rights – Dr. Julie Ponesse’s Remarkable Speech
Dr. Julie Ponesse, Brownstone Institute Dr. Julie Ponesse is a professor of ethics who has taught at Ontario’s Huron University College for 20 years. She…
The Property Instinct and the Utter Futility of Socialism
By Robert E. Wright If you are like me, you regularly interact with people who remain unfazed by America’s recent giant strides towards authoritarian socialism,…
The Orwellian Vaccine Passport Agenda Relies On The Lie Of The “Social Contract”
Op-Ed by Brandon Smith There is a fundamental question that needs to be asked when examining the vaccine passport issue, and what I find is…
From Bioweapons to Super Soldiers: How the UK is Joining the Genomic Technology Arms Race
By Yusef Paolo Rabiah, UCL The UK government recently announced an £800 million, taxpayer-funded Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria). The brainchild of the British…
Free Speech Has Legal And Ethical Confines, Propaganda Does Not
Americans are not afraid of ignorant people saying ignorant things. They are afraid of their own voice being forcibly censored when they try to refute…
AI is Increasingly Being Used to Identify Emotions – Here’s What’s at Stake
By Alexa Hagerty, University of Cambridge and Alexandra Albert, UCL Imagine you are in a job interview. As you answer the recruiter’s questions, an artificial…
Will People Chip Their Brains to Ditch Their Smartphones When Neuralink “can be considered morally unethical”?
By B.N. Frank In case you missed it, last summer Elon Musk announced one of his companies had been putting computer chips in animals’ brains…
Resurrecting the Dead … Digitally: One Step Closer to the “Singularity”
By Robert Wheeler In 2017, Microsoft revealed it had patented a “chatbot” that could digitally resurrect the dead if actually built. The chatbot uses AI…
Chatbots That Resurrect the Dead: Legal Experts Weigh in on “Disturbing” Technology
By Edina Harbinja, Aston University; Lilian Edwards, Newcastle University, and Marisa McVey, Aston University It was recently revealed that in 2017 Microsoft patented a chatbot…
Google Engineers Resign After AI Ethics Researcher Was Fired for Concerns That Company’s Speech Tech Could Hurt Marginalized Groups
By B.N. Frank Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is getting a bad rap for replacing human jobs (see 1, 2) and being used for applications that…
Get Ready For Your Mandatory “Morality and Compliance Pill” — And Other Dystopian Weekly News
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world…