A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.
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The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.
The attitude we take to Will Smith’s slap will mirror our attitudes to violence, masculinity, and protecting others more generally.
When we fail to help in a bad situation, we are morally responsible. So, why don’t we pick up others’ litter?
The new documentary “Make People Better” leans toward a different narrative about gene-editing than we’ve heard before.
After 70 years, “The Power of Positive Thinking” remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
A philosopher unpacks the paradox in using the word “evil.”
Apart from divine authority, is there an ethical basis for right and wrong?
Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.
Wherever automation rises, religiosity falls.
The “attention economy” corrupts science.
It’s time for an honest conversation.
Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist’s crystal ball.
In some Asian countries, what’s in your blood may influence your social status.
Regardless of political ideology, one of the few things that many people seem to have in common is a moral hypocrisy that arises from a fundamental lack of self-reflection.
Is it deliberate fraud or just bad research?
Why, exactly, don’t you trust that person’s opinion?
The ethical debate over zoos is going to grow louder. There might be a solution that involves robots.
And debate over it started soon after.
“Lethal autonomous weapon” sounds friendlier than “killer robot.”
To put things in perspective, the cost of sequencing a single genome in 2012 was around $10,000.
There’s nothing like the end of the world to make you a philosopher.
Which philosopher had the strongest arguments? David Hume, who raised some of the best challenges for science, ethics, and religion.
In “The History of Western Philosophy,” Bertrand Russell made it clear whose thinking he admired — and whose thinking he didn’t.
What responsibility do social media companies like Twitter have to free speech? It depends on whether they are “landlords” or “publishers.”
In terms of sheer productivity, “-gate” has no peer. Wikipedia’s list of -gates has over 260 entries.
Online Shinto communities have existed since the birth of the internet as we know it.
Prison is an unreliable method of punishment. Let’s do better.