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Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Articles on Artificial Intelligence

  • Real friends understand each other, even if imperfectly...

    The urgent issue, for now, is to avoid distorting our ideas of friendship and human happiness.

  • Its Framing Power, and Relation to Privacy and Free Speech

    Dignity as a word has framing power. It can help expand the listening window when discussing societal challenges such as disparities and injustices. Three reading references for you to explore this possibility.

  • A recent article titled “Why dignity is a troubling concept for AI ethics,” suggests that AI ethics not use the word dignity any more. It's wrong.

  • An upcoming lecture by Shannon Vallor, author of The AI Mirror

    Join us on April 29 for this year’s Regan Lecture, addressing AI ethics.

  • By prioritizing empathy, mutual respect, and ethical behavior, we can build virtual communities that reflect the best of humanity and honor everyone's dignity.

  • A uniquely digital dignity requires that we extend the moral and legal protections afforded to physical bodies to include non-physical digital layers.

  • AI, like a young child raised on the sum of our culture, picks up on the patterns we don’t even realize we’re teaching.

  • Seeing God and the Sacred in All Things May be Compromised without Thoughtful Consideration and Vigilance

    There is an upside and a downside to technological inventions and advances like AI and it often takes some time and experience with them to fully appreciate both the good and the bad that each one of them unleashes.

  • "Ethics in the Age of AI" poll conducted by the Ethics Center was cited in an article from Investopia.

  • An AI Ethics Case Study

    Exploring the intersection of chatbot design, personalization, and agency.

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