US evangelicals issue principles on benefits, challenges of artificial intelligence
Washington, DCRNS Artificial intelligence may allow technology to help people make wise decisions and work more efficiently. But it is not morally neutral, argues a group of Southern Baptist and other evangelical leaders in a new declaration about technology and ethics. Russell Moore, third from left, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious […]
Paige Patterson, ousted Baptist seminary leader, to teach ethics course
RNS Paige Patterson, ousted as president of a prominent Southern Baptist seminary this spring for allegedly dismissing women’s concerns about domestic abuse and rape, is set to teach a Christian ethics course at a Charlotte, North Carolina, seminary later this month. Patterson, once the top elected official of the Southern Baptist Convention, was removed in May from […]
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE (HOLY) GHOST IN THE MACHINE – CATHOLIC THINKERS TACKLE THE ETHICS OF AI
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports on how Catholic theologians are grappling with the issue of artificial intelligence…
CONVERSATIONS: NERIDAH MORRIS, DIRECTOR OF ETHICAL FASHION MARKETPLACE THREAD HARVEST
DAVID ADAMS chats with Neridah Morris, director of Australian-based online ethical fashion marketplace Thread Harvest, about fashion, faith – and Holy Spirit encouragement…
SIGHT-SEEING: SHOP TILL WE DROP?
AMANDA JACKSON reflects on the challenges in buying ethically…
TECHNOLOGY: AS FACEBOOK REELS, SILICON VALLEY DABBLES IN ETHICS
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, looks at how the tech industry is grappling with the issue of ethics…
CONTEXT AND ETHICS
Many of us have a very black and white approach to ethics. BLACK AND WHITE? Context, says Paul Clark, leaves room for shades of grey. PICTURE: Ryoji Iwata/Unsplash That is; gambling is either wrong or right. Drugs are good or bad. I want to suggest that ethics is all about context; there are few things […]
LIFE’S TOUGH QUESTIONS: IS IT ETHICAL TO TAKE A HOLIDAY IN A “DEVELOPING” COUNTRY?
PAUL HANNA, a lecturer in sustainable tourism at the University of Surrey in the UK, looks, in this article first published on The Conversation, at the ethics of having a luxury holiday in a developing country…
ROBOTS: AS ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE GROWS, SO DO PERCEIVED THREATS TO HUMAN UNIQUENESS
ROSALIE CHEN, of Religion News Service, reports that the Elon Musk-Mark Zuckerberg tussle over artificial intelligence reflects broader questions about the centrality of God-given humanity…
BOOKS: AN INDEPTH EXAMINATION OF HOW THE BIBLE CAN INFORM OUR ETHICS IN A POSTCOLONIAL WORLD
DARREN CRONSHAW reads Mark Brett’s look at Biblical ethics in a postcolonial world…