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Exploring the Environmental Costs of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
At a book review session for "Atlas of AI" by Kate Crawford, organized by TechHuman, concerns were raised about the environmental costs of AI. This article briefly explores this topic.
Shuk Ling Chan
March 20, 2023
6
min read
Going Deeper
AI Is a Tool, Superintelligence Is Fiction
Alexander Fink highlights 5 theses to guide our understanding of AI and its place in our world.
Alexander Fink
September 27, 2022
6
min read
Book Reviews
Live No Lies
This book reinterprets the ancient paradigm of the three enemies of the soul for the modern age.
Samuel Johns
June 19, 2022
7
min read
Book Reviews
Prosperity? Seeking the True Gospel
The gospel is the church’s most precious gift to cherish, protect, and pass on. We must never stop checking what we believe and preach and then ask the question: Is this the gospel?
Samuel Johns
January 5, 2022
8
min read
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Misleading Rights-Talk
Postmodernism has lent a voice to humiliated and marginalized groups but in its more extreme manifestations it mocks notions of objective knowledge and moral truths that transcend culture and context.
Vinoth Ramachandra
January 25, 2022
5
min read
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The Primacy of Integrity
We observe that integrity is a 'cross-over virtue', valued both in private and professional life. Our research shows this virtue is often an aspirational one in the lives of young Christians.
Samuel Johns
June 22, 2021
2
min read
Book Reviews
Theological Neuroethics
The brain is an interesting organ. Weighing only 1360 grams (2% of our body weight) it consumes 20-50% of the blood oxygen supply, and is the center of thought, consciousness, emotions and desires.
Kristi Kola
June 22, 2021
15
min read
Quick Read
Is Honesty ‘the Best Policy’?
We may still believe honesty to be ‘the best policy’, but who’s honesty is it? Is it honesty expedient to our own desired outcomes? This article is part 1 of a mini-series on integrity.
Rodica Rosior
June 22, 2021
3
min read
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AI Ethics Part 3 - A Christian Manifesto
Concludes the series of talks on AI ethics with 9 propositions that are suggested could form the basis of a biblically-based response to AI especially in the light of our understanding of Imago Dei.
Jeremy Peckham
June 22, 2021
18
min read
Video
AI Ethics Part 2 - Key Ethical Issues & Imago Dei
Jeremy looks at the key drivers of AI ethics in the context of our increasing reliance on machines and their cumulative impact on humanity and civilisation.
Jeremy Peckham
June 22, 2021
21
min read
Video
AI Ethics Part 1 - Introduction
Introducing the main ethical issues surrounding current AI technology from a Christian worldview perspective, with an overview of the main modes of ethical decision making.
Jeremy Peckham
June 22, 2021
24
min read
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AI Technology & Applications Part 3
Part 3 investigates the likelihood of Narrow AI advancing to provide the capabilities of General AI and beyond. From a series of 6 talks during a Cross-Current conference in Berlin, Nov 2018.
Jeremy Peckham
June 22, 2021
23
min read
Video
AI Technology & Applications Part 2
Part 2 provides a road map of where AI is heading and discusses its limitations, the risks and the dangers of its misuse. from a series of 6 talks during a cross-current conference in Berlin, Nov 2018
Jeremy Peckham
June 22, 2021
19
min read
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AI Technology & Applications Part 1
Jeremy Peckham presenting some of the areas in which AI technology is being used, highlighting the current race for AI dominance as well as the significant increase in funding for AI in recent years.
Jeremy Peckham
June 22, 2021
23
min read
Video
Interview with John Wyatt
Interview with Professor John Wyatt at the November 2019 Cross-Current Conference. John is a leading medical ethicist who wants to help us think biblically through current matters of life and death.
John Wyatt
June 22, 2021
17
min read
Going Deeper
Artificial Intellingence - Ethics & Challenges
AI – or artificial intelligence – is defined as ‘an area of computer science that emphasises the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans’.
Samuel Johns
June 22, 2021
8
min read