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El Salvador's passage of The Bitcoin Law has raised questions about the ethical nature of implementing a cryptocurrency as legal tender. Less than 5% of all Chivo ATMs are located within communities living in formerly guerrilla-controlled territories, harkening to a substantial lack of support by the Salvadoran government and a failure to achieve all three of The Bitcoin Law’s goals.
Facial recognition software is able to transform images into numerical expressions that are generated by neural networks, and facial characterization occurs allowing the software to classify a face into different categories such as age, gender, and emotion. This paper examines the ethical considerations associated with use of this technology.
In the wake of movies such as “Her” or “Ex Machina” which portray an AI-bot or embodied AI machine that a human falls in love with, how can we understand romantic relationships in the realm of AI bots? Our panel covers the philosophical, psychological, and theological perspectives, aiming to bring students, staff, faculty, and the community together to think about new questions concerning love, relationships, and romance in an AI landscape.
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On the multifaceted ethical issues presented by brain implants and AI, and efforts to address them.
Students, faculty, and other participants try to differentiate between responses written by ChatGPT and by an undergraduate student, on three different ethical topics.
In many aspects of our lives, people must grant their permission in order to achieve something -- set the terms of a contract or complete a transaction, for example. Should similar informed consent be part of our AI use as well?
Three panelists consider questions regarding human flourishing, how we understand individual and humanity’s purpose in relation to emerging AI technologies, and where the fear of AI arises from.
The defeat of the Open AI Board shows that in the battle between AI profits and ethics, it’s no contest.
By discharging existing government departments and agencies to oversee AI and developing new tools and organizations to aid in that effort, the Biden administration is addressing the question of whether AI regulation will be distributed among a number of entities, or concentrated in a single, new agency.
Accelerating AI capabilities underscore the need for ethics frameworks to help guide the design and development of all technologies. Here’s how to put ethics into action and ensure your efforts have an impact.
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