A small gathering of Galesburg city officials, parks and recreation staff, citizens and members of the Save Hawthorne Pool group celebrated as Mayor Schwartzman cut the ribbon to open the newly ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) advances, replicating aspects of human cognition, the ethical implications of its decisions and outcomes become increasingly critical. The intersection of AI and ...

The big thinkers at Aperture discuss what morality is and how it shapes human behavior.

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Using autonomous weapons systems (AWS) to target humans will erode moral agency and lead to a general devaluing of life, according to military technology experts. Speaking at the Vienna Conference on ...

I spent the summer of 2011 as an undergraduate researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, in Colorado. My job was to collect burying beetles—necrophagous critters with wing cases the ...

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Full disclosure: One of us works—and the other one did—in an applied ethics center. The definition and the role of ethics are, therefore, deeply important to us. We are fully aware, however, of the ...