7.06: The ERLC AI Statement, Part 1

People reflecting proactively on ethics? Sold! …mostly. Mostly!

The ERLC published a statement on artificial intelligence and ethics. We give them an ‘A’ but have some substantive disagreements.

• Artificial Intelligence: An Evangelical Statement of Principles
• Mass Effect - Mass Affection
• I, Robot
• Ray Kurzweil
  • The Singularity
  • Newton’s Wake, Ken Macleod
• 6.03: I’m Not Puttin’ That Chip in My Cheek—Bodily modification, from hip replacement to magnets in your fingers.
• 6.05: Crispr—Setting limits on how far we modify ourselves
• Deepfakes

• Mixtaped Monk by Mixtaped Monk
• “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho.

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