Tag: "computers and AI"

Black Mirror Reflections

Terri Murray illustrates Marcuse’s critique of technologised society using an episode of the British TV series Black Mirror.
[Issue 97: July/August 2013: Television]

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

Alistair MacFarlane on how a poet’s daughter invented the concept of software.
[Issue 96: May/June 2013: Brief Lives]

The Art of World-Making

Mikhail Epstein sees a bright future for metaphysics in the hi-tech age.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013: Appearance and Reality]

The Minds of Machines

Namit Arora considers the complexity of consciousness and its implications for artificial intelligence.
[Issue 87: November/December 2011: Brains & Minds]

The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil

James Williams has a singularily good time.
[Issue 86: September/October 2011: Books]

Mathematics, Morality & Machines

William Byers, mathematician, and Michael Schleifer, moral theorist, use their judgement to calculate the improbability of a machine thinking like a human being.
[Issue 78: April/May 2010: Articles]

The Conscience Of The Machine

by Wendell Wallach
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Editorial]

The Challenge of Moral Machines

Wendell Wallach tells us what the basic problems are.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Machine Morality]

Will Robots Need Their Own Ethics?

Steve Torrance asks if robots need minds to be moral producers or moral consumers.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Machine Morality]

Four Kinds of Ethical Robots

James H. Moor defines different ways in which machines could be moral.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Machine Morality]