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Newsletter No 2/2019 - Between Technophobia and Technoutopia - Ethical Challenges of Artificial Intelligence
Editorial
Between Technophobia and Technoutopia – Ethical Challenges of Artificial IntelligenceBy Dr Obiora Ike, Globethics.net Executive Director |
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| Image source: www.vpnsrus.com Whether or not we accept it, know it or deny it, we now live on a new planet, one in which virtual space and the development and deployment of algorithms and artificial intelligence has an increasing importance. Algorithms are processes made up of formulas to solve problems. With the advent of artificial intelligence a learning element is introduced into such processes that simulate human intelligence with the possibility of judgement and action and the potential that the results could contravene human values, laws and rights. There is an antinomy between technoutopia and technophobia, a problem that ethical reflection and action can and must solve to strike the balance between effective and beneficial progress and actual and potential harm. |
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| Conference on Ethics in Higher Education in Nagercoil When: 2 March 2019 Where: Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu | Register for online course on ethics for teaching professionals When: Available as of 5 March 2019 Where: Online
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| Essay of the month: The ethics of cyber-attacks A major debate within cyber ethics literature concerns the way in which the moral nature of cyber-attacks should be understood. | Collection: Globethics.net Library Submissions This unique collection is a valuable resource composed of around 87,000 articles and books on ethics and theology submitted by Globethics.net participants. |
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| Lutherans join Globethics.net Consortium The Lutheran World Federation and Globethics.net signed athe Globethics.net Consortium Agreement to futher cooperation to develop and sustain lifelong learning in their respective traditions and networks. | Africa and Europe moving forward together This was the main focus of the conference ‘Africa and Europe Moving Forward Together – Evidence-based Solutions for African Development' organised by Leuphana University and the German Institute of Global and Area Studies from 24-26 January 2019. | #EthicsForEveryone: Can there be ethics outside of religion? Religion has long been held as the grounding for ethics, but the introduction of post-modernism and the enlightenment era, and the recent rise in humanism and atheism around the world, has brought this assumption to a halt. |
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New Publications
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| Ijtihād Maqāṣidi: The Interconnected Maṣlaḥah-Based Reconstruction of Islamic Laws In this book Islamic law is presented from various perspectives to find the common thread between the Sharia, Islamic law and Islamic jurisprudence. This work instills a deep ethical understanding of the normative foundations of Islamic law in the global context. | Day After Day: 365 Aphorisms |
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