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AI self-awareness is not the real risk
After a long series of posts on morality, I am starting a short series on big questions raised by the rise of AI. In this first post, I look at the risks posed by the rise of intelligent and possibly self-aware AI agents.
In Terminator 2 (...
So, what is morality?
This post concludes my series on what morality is. It recaps the key ideas I have put forward and answers some of the questions left open by the previous posts.
In his Histories, Herodotus recounts how, in the late sixth or early fifth cen...
The tide and the waves of social change
In the previous post, I described how norms of fairness evolve over time to reflect the structure of power in society. If so, how should we explain change over time, and what is the role of political actors, in particular those pushing soci...
The shocking truth about fairness
In this series of posts, I am explaining what morality and fairness are. In previous posts, I described how societies whose members have fairly equal bargaining power tend to develop fairly egalitarian social contracts. Here, I discuss what...
What is a just society?
In this series of posts, I am explaining what human morality is. In previous posts, I have described how thinking of fairness norms as generic solutions to the everyday problem of allocating rights and duties in society leads to simple answ...
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Behavioural economist - Director of the Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the University of Queensland - Author of "Optimally Irrational. The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We Do" (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
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