Overcoming Cognitive Bias with Algorithms
This is a revised text of a lecture given at King’s College in March 2023
The judgments of human beings can be biased; they can...
AI and Social Justice: The latest technological ‘revolution’ and the Capability Approach
Face recognition to unlock our phones, navigation apps that show traffic in real-time, digital assistants that turn on lights and lock doors in our...
Smartphones and Meaningfulness
This essay explores topics discussed in Tiger Roholt’s recently published book, Distracted from Meaning: A Philosophy of Smartphones.
Imagine that you are at the DMV...
Does techno-scientific orientation mean abandoning philosophy as a normative project?
It is pertinent to examine the perspective of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and its implications to enhance the understanding of technological development. By...
Conscientious Objection and Euthanasia
Should doctors be allowed to conscientiously object to euthanasia? Voluntary euthanasia for patients with terminal illness is now legal in dozens of jurisdictions. A...
Responsibility and Automated Decision-Making
In 1979, an IBM presentation included a slide with the following injunction:
Despite this warning, nearly fifty years later computing systems are increasingly used to...
Time as a Utensil
The following essay was published in The Philosopher, The New Basics. Society. Spring 2022.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the way time was...
Technology and Aesthetic Meaning
“…the future of man as his will, as dependent on a human will…so as to make an end of that gruesome dominion of chance...
The Coming Robot Rights Catastrophe
Time to be a doomsayer! If technology continues on its current trajectory, we will soon be facing a moral catastrophe. We will create AI systems...
To Assess Technologies, Bioethicists Must Take Off Their Blinkers
The following piece was originally published in the Hastings Center Report (September-October)
A casual review of the literature reveals mainstream bioethics’ love affair with biomedical technologies:...