Tag: Ethics
Tag: Ethics
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Artificial intelligence and responsibility
Artificial Intelligence (AI) profoundly affects human life, transforming information and communication. While it offers significant benefits, it also presents risks such as information pollution and the spread of fake news. The use of AI must be guided by ethical principles to prevent discrimination and social injustice. Freedom and responsibility are inseparable and are essential to…
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Artificial Intelligence in healthcare: a future of opportunities and challenges
Artificial Intelligence offers great opportunities for healthcare, but it also presents several challenges. With aging populations and an increase in chronic diseases, healthcare systems are facing rising costs and resistance to change. AI can improve preventive health, early diagnosis, care pathways optimisation and personalised treatments. It can also support research. But it is important to…
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Ethical Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Military Contexts: Killer Robots and the Future of Warfare
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionised the military sector, leading to the creation of autonomous weapons known as killer robots. These systems can identify, select and attack targets without human intervention, which raises complex ethical dilemmas. Key challenges include distinguishing between combatants and civilians and respecting the humanitarian principles of proportionality and responsibility…
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Large language models: the legal and ethical implications of synsethised information
Generative artificial intelligence, e.g. large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT-4, is now a key topic of public debate, and it is having an impact on sectors such as justice, healthcare, and security. These models generate coherent and relevant text, which raises questions about their creativity. They are creative because they go beyond simply reproducing…
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The absence of artificial intelligence in the fantasy universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune cycle – Part II: Do not corrupt the human soul
In the Dune universe, the absence of artificial intelligence is justified by deep ethical reasons. The dialogue between Paul Atreides and Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam emphasises the prohibition against creating machines that imitate the human mind, which is considered an act of counterfeiting and degrading the human essence. This prohibition is linked to the…
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Transhumanism – the alphabet of AI rhetoric: Part 3
Transhumanism is an ideology that proposes radically enhancing the human body and mind through technology, allowing individuals to choose whether to undergo improvements in order to live longer and become superintelligent. This movement, supported by various tech billionaires, explores both its utopian potential to abolish human suffering and the apocalyptic risks of technologies that are…
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Biblio-theological reflections on artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is incapable of processing abstract models of reality, and it is incapable of having awareness. It should be seen as a robotic assistant rather than true intelligence. The distinction between weak, strong, and general AI is misleading because these technologies cannot consciously perceive and organise information. Drawing on biblical references, AI that strives…