Taming HAL 9000 On Steroids: How Do We Ensure Fair-Minded Artificial General Intelligence?
In the twisted realm of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), the question of fairness looms like a neon-lit specter in the darkest alley…
Dennis Stevens, Ed.D.
Ethical AGI Demands Leadership Unconstrained by Incentive
We all have to stand somewhere — there are no skyhooks, only toeholds.
The Insidious Gift of Instrumental Rationality
The gravest peril posed by advanced AI systems is not their potential to directly destroy humanity through misuse as autonomous weapons…
Balancing Public Interest and Entertainment in News Media
The distinction between news in the public interest and news as entertainment has long been a contentious issue in media discourse. This…
Navigating Ethical Decisions in Artificial Intelligence
The decision about the direction of artificial intelligence development is at a critical juncture. It involves a choice between…
The Constructed Reality of Artificial General Intelligence
In The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), Berger and Luckmann assert that reality is not an…
Introduction to AI Ethics
An overview and introduction to the ethical implications as AI nears artificial general intelligence (AGI).
The Horizon of AI and AGI: A Profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner
Leopold Aschenbrenner is a prominent thinker in the field of artificial intelligence and its societal impacts. His writing at SITUATIONAL…
When AGI Goes Wrong: Who Pays the Price?
The drive to create “trustworthy AI” is gaining momentum. Governments, industry, and civil society are all rushing to define ethical…
There’s no way to develop realistic recommendations to improve trust in the media and democracy…
The complexity of reality and it’s relationship to truth and objectivity makes this a really difficult topic to appropriately address as…
The Role of Institutions in American Politics: Navigating Factionalism and the Imperative of…
While I agree in the sense that, “The problem confronting journalism and politics in the contemporary United States is not at its core the…
Navigating the Gulf Between Fact and Meaning: A Critique of Pew Research Center Studies
What makes me weary about these Pew Research Center studies is that they lack the ability to address the divide between truth and meaning…