Faster Than the Future Mini-cast #1

Advancements in technology are aimed at making life safer, easier, and more enjoyable. Could we end up surrendering something in the process; moral agency and personal responsibility? And what might that trade get us?

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Topics:

• The Singularity Saints Podcast celebrates its first birthday!
• First Things: Algorithm Religion by John Waters
  • https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/12/algorithm-religion
• John Waters a Neo-Luddite?
  • https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/phone-texts-send-wrong-message-1.1295731
• Autonomous Vehicles and decision making with moral weight
• Willingly surrendering moral agency to artificial intelligence
• AI versus human driving capabilities
• AI versus human values in decision making
• Benefits in the aggregate versus consequences in the specific
• Computer Weekly: How Soon Will We Be Driving Autonomous Cars by Zach Emmanuel
  • https://www.computerweekly.com/news/450429466/How-soon-will-we-be-driving-fully-autonomous-cars  
  • Predictions of Andrew Lee, Octo Telematics
• Who or what bears legal responsibility for the actions of AI?
• Defining moral agency
  • https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/moral-agent
• Assessing moral agency and human relations
• Foundations for moral responsibility
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Moral Responsibility
  • https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-responsibility/
• Moral responsibility and power
• Good Samaritan laws and Duty to Rescue laws
• Moral responsibility and freedom
• Surrendering moral responsibility to something that cannot have moral agency
• Death caused by Robots
• Think Artificial: The First Humans Killed by Robots
  • http://www.thinkartificial.org/aesthetics/the-first-human-killed-by-a-robot/
  • Robert Williams and Kenji Urada
• Government views on responsibility of autonomous vehicles
• Wired: Feds Say They'll Count Computers As Human Drivers by Alex Davies
  • https://www.wired.com/2016/02/feds-say-theyll-count-computers-as-human-drivers/
  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s letter to Google
• Robert Kane on moral responsibility
  • https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-responsibility/
• Social outcomes of ethical abdication to AI
• Laws and the ideals of justice
• Crimes without perpetrators
• Forbes: A Robot Really Committed A Crime: Now What? By Ryan Calo
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryancalo/2014/12/23/a-robot-really-committed-a-crime-now-what/#74760e6d6e55
• Social policy shaped by trusting AI

For the Church

• Godlike trust in AI and idolatry
• God and moral neutrality
• Moral responsibility in Old Testament
• Making a place to discuss these issues
• Christian citizen’s influence on public policy

Looking Ahead

• Sweating electronics for temperature control
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mobile-phones-in-the-future-could-sweat-to-keep-cool-thanks-to-a-perspiring-material-just-three-times-as-thick-as-a-human-hair/ar-BBZdPW8

Passages Referenced

• Psalm 97:10
• Psalm 5:4-6
• 1 Timothy 2:3-6
• Exodus 21:33-34

 

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Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/  )

“For the Church Segment” transition music: Marketing from Skibka Music. (