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Moral Triage
Pros and Cons of Autonomous Weapons Systems
A review of the arguments for and against autonomous weapons systems, and a discussion of challenges to limiting and defining those systems.
Incorporating Ethics into Artificial Intelligence
This article reviews the reasons scholars hold that driverless cars and many other AI equipped machines must be able to make ethical decisions, and the difficulties this approach faces.
Communitarian Antidotes to Populism
Populism is rising in the United States, and this has ramifications for its democratic institutions. The rise is attributable in part to the alienation many Americans feel in their own country, whi
Academic Activism: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
A book review of The Public Professor, by M.V. Lee Badgett, NYU Press, 2016
Out with Regime Change
Conflating "the responsibility to protect" with regime change is, in effect, one reason the tragic civil war in Syria is continuing.
Social Justice in the Post-Affluent Society
The article spells out the reasons and provides evidence in support of the hypothesis that if the culture of a society shifts from one that extols affluence to one that extols communitarian pursuit
“We Must Not Be Enemies”
In the aftermath of the November elections, progressives should stop asking themselves what went wrong and focus on where to go from here.
Talking to the Muslim World: how, and with whom?
Reining in Private Agents
How Aggressive Is China?
Several policymakers and other experts have called China’s behavior, especially its activities in the South and East China Seas, ‘aggressive.’ This article compares China’s behavior with a suggested definition of ‘aggression’ based on the one enshrined in international law, and it finds that these experts’ use of the term ‘aggressive’ is inconsistent with this definition.
Designing AI Systems that Obey Our Laws and Values
Operational AI systems need to obey both the law of the land and our values. We propose AI oversight systems (“AI Guardians”) as an approach to addressing this challenge, and to respond to the potential risks associated with increasingly autonomous AI systems
The fusion of the private and public sectors
Much of contemporary analysis treats the public and private sectors as two rather separate and fundamentally different realms. Many see one of the two sectors as inherently virtuous and the other as corrupt. The paper shows, in considerable detail, that the two sectors are deeply intertwined. It follows that we need a rather different framework to study state and society.
The Surprising Link between Sustainability and Social Justice
From Partnership to Community
President of Israel Reuven Rivlin is calling for a dialogue among four “tribes” to develop a framework for a society-wide partnership in Israel.
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