Ethics and AI: should we be building AI?

There’s a common question I encounter when I post about ethics, particularly to promote secular ethics or challenge religious ethics: given that we can basically figure out how to operate in society, why try to create a divide between the religious and non-religious? ‘Can we all just get along.’ The sentiment isn’t always that politely…

In the Head of a Seven-Year-Old

I have scheduled a few posts to appear over the next few days because I was meant to be busy. I apologise for the fact that they are all religious (or irreligious). However, the plasterer I was meant to be working with is now two hours late, so I want to share a little story…