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New Evangelical Statement on AI is Balanced and Well-Informed
The signers are clearly (and rightly) skeptical that computers can become conscious moral agentsToo much of the debate over AI is dictated by prior metaphysical commitments that are rarely examined. This Evangelical Statement is a welcome contrast because it makes the theological issues explicit.

Universal Basic Income? Fear of AI Fuels a New Argument for Socialism

Universal Basic Income? Fear of AI Fuels Bad Economics
If new technology led to mass permanent unemployment, history would be an endless saga of expanding joblessnessAlthough the coming shift will be abrupt, new technologies enable us to focus, as economists would put it, on our comparative advantage over machines.

That Robot Is Not Self-Aware
The way the media cover AI, you'd almost think they had invented being hopelessly naïve
A Short Argument Against the Materialist Account of the Mind
You can simply picture yourself eating a chocolate ice cream sundae.Trump Calls for a Reform of Perverse Welfare System. Media (Mostly) Ignore It

On Common Ground: The Morality of Capitalism

Revisionist History in Cosmos
Introduction: God and Evolution
