To put it simply, ethics represents the moral code that guides a person’s choices and behaviors throughout their life. The idea of a moral code extends beyond the individual to include what is ...

What Wouk ultimately seems to trust is neither command nor law alone, but conscience—fragile, pressured, often belated.

As artificial intelligence (AI) development progresses, experts have begun considering how best to give an AI system an ethical or moral backbone. A popular idea is to teach AI to behave ethically by ...

Providing legal solutions to complicated moral dilemmas is not always ethical. Such legislation can inadvertently compound existing problems and lead to new ones. Efforts intended to end white slave ...

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The fervor around state-of-the-art AI language models like OpenAI’s GPT-3 hasn’t died down. If anything, it’s gaining steam. Melanie Mitchell, a professor of computer science at Portland State ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 14: A person passes frozen turkeys displayed for sale inside a grocery store on November 14, 2022 in New York City. The price of turkeys, a staple for many Americans at ...

Who do people consider to be less ethical or honest than either telemarketers or used car salesman? If you said Washington politicians, you’d be right on the button. According to Gallup News Services, ...

Jonathan Kwan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi and was previously the Markkula Center’s Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics. Views ...