The Singularity Saints Podcast

023: Surrendering Moral Agency

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Advancements in technology are aimed at making life safer, easier, and more enjoyable. Could we end up surrendering something in the process; moral agency and personal responsibility? And what might that trade get us?

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Topics:

  • The Singularity Saints Podcast celebrates its first birthday!
  • First Things: Algorithm Religion by John Waters
    • https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/12/algorithm-religion
  • John Waters a Neo-Luddite?
    • https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/phone-texts-send-wrong-message-1.1295731
  • Autonomous Vehicles and decision making with moral weight
  • Willingly surrendering moral agency to artificial intelligence
  • AI versus human driving capabilities
  • AI versus human values in decision making
  • Benefits in the aggregate versus consequences in the specific
  • Computer Weekly: How Soon Will We Be Driving Autonomous Cars by Zach Emmanuel
    • https://www.computerweekly.com/news/450429466/How-soon-will-we-be-driving-fully-autonomous-cars  
  • Predictions of Andrew Lee, Octo Telematics
  • Who or what bears legal responsibility for the actions of AI?
  • Defining moral agency
    • https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/moral-agent
  • Assessing moral agency and human relations
  • Foundations for moral responsibility
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Moral Responsibility
    • https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-responsibility/
  • Moral responsibility and power
  • Good Samaritan laws and Duty to Rescue laws
  • Moral responsibility and freedom
  • Surrendering moral responsibility to something that cannot have moral agency
  • Death caused by Robots
  • Think Artificial: The First Humans Killed by Robots
    • http://www.thinkartificial.org/aesthetics/the-first-human-killed-by-a-robot/
  • Robert Williams and Kenji Urada
  • Government views on responsibility of autonomous vehicles
  • Wired: Feds Say They'll Count Computers As Human Drivers by Alex Davies
    • https://www.wired.com/2016/02/feds-say-theyll-count-computers-as-human-drivers/
  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s letter to Google
  • Robert Kane on moral responsibility
    • https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-responsibility/
  • Social outcomes of ethical abdication to AI
  • Laws and the ideals of justice
  • Crimes without perpetrators
  • Forbes: A Robot Really Committed A Crime: Now What? By Ryan Calo
    • https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryancalo/2014/12/23/a-robot-really-committed-a-crime-now-what/#74760e6d6e55
  • Social policy shaped by trusting AI

    • For the Church

    • Godlike trust in AI and idolatry
  • God and moral neutrality
  • Moral responsibility in Old Testament
  • Making a place to discuss these issues
  • Christian citizen’s influence on public policy

    • Looking Ahead

    • Sweating electronics for temperature control
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mobile-phones-in-the-future-could-sweat-to-keep-cool-thanks-to-a-perspiring-material-just-three-times-as-thick-as-a-human-hair/ar-BBZdPW8

    • Passages Referenced

    • Psalm 97:10
  • Psalm 5:4-6
  • 1 Timothy 2:3-6
  • Exodus 21:33-34

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