Avainsana: moral
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At the Roots of Evil – Why Is There Evil in the World, and Is Human Nature Fundamentally Good or Evil?
“Evil is ignorance,” Socrates once said.“No one is evil by nature; one is simply weaker than another.” — Eino Leino. The Nazis systematically confined Jews and many other groups of people behind barbed-wire fences in camps, where they imagined they could exterminate entire peoples and all those they deemed “subhuman” by gassing them in a…
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Politics, legislation and morality should be based on science and philosophy
Almost everything we do is related to politics and, above all, morality and ethics. Good politics is based on morality. Good law reflects and mirrors morality. Political decision-making must be based on science and ethics. In politics, it is important to distinguish between different values: there are absolute values (such as that killing is wrong)…
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Is artificial intelligence a Pandora’s box? – How to train artificial intelligence to be moral
Writer and historian Yuval Noah Harari warned humanity about artificial intelligence. His concern wasn’t that there would be a machine rebellion that would result in the machines taking over in the style of the Terminator and Matrix movies. His concern was that an AI could hack a human by using language and communicating with a…