In a moral decision, we must consider the consequences of our action, our motives for doing the act and the circumstances surrounding the act. A truly human act ... alone cannot make a bad action ...

Aligning AIs with people’s goals and values is tricky. A new technique quantifies how far off human and machine are from each other.

Empathy is being publicly derided as a deadly weakness. According to experts and extensive research, it's one of our greatest strengths.

One held a biocompatible plastic that, when printed, would form the interlocking structure of a scaffold—the skeleton, essentially—of a printed human organ or body part. The others could be ...

pornographers and their defenders will make cliched arguments to undermine your effort. The answers published here will help you to respond. They are adapted from Morality in Media's publication ...

Through the portrayal of Briony Tallis and the consequences of her misjudgment, "Atonement" examines the intricate nature of ...

The absence of the staying hand of moral sanity -- especially among our political and technological leadership -- is taking us, all of us, to a new and anxious place. Zygmunt Bauman, who died in 2017, ...

Baum, director of the Business and Entertainment Program at American University, has spent years teaching students how to defend the human imagination from digital encroachment. But as ...

The theory developes a model of hypocrisy that helps distinguish genuine criticism from grandstanding opposition.

There is a universal need for fidelity and trust in personal and professional relationships, and there are consequences when ...

Not so long ago, I was visiting a dying woman. To console and encourage their mother, her daughters, who were also present, ...

There are no universal moral rules or ... does not reside in the act itself but in the loving configuration of the factors in the situation--in the 'elements of a human act' --i.e., its totality ...