Aspiring autocrats are increasingly pressuring businesses to cooperate with their quest for wealth and power, such as by demanding they direct corporate funds towards their personal enrichment or fire ...

A study analyzed the brain activity of military officer cadets and civilians while they were making moral decisions and concluded that the perception of being the author of our actions and their ...

Moral responsibility occupies a central place in ethical philosophy, addressing the question of when and why agents are held accountable for their actions. Debates have long focused on the conditions ...

The deepest roots of our commitment to moral responsibility are in powerful emotions, rather than reason. There are many sources for the stubborn belief in moral responsibility, and some are quite ...

The distinction between killing and letting die has been used by many to condemn euthanasia and assisted suicide while giving approbation to withdrawing life-support systems in at least some patients.

As AI/ML medical systems have become more sophisticated, the reasoning behind their decisions has become less able to be explained. This is due to the complexity of the network in evaluating massive ...

It all started with an obscure article in an obscure journal, published just as the last AI winter was beginning to thaw. In 2004, Andreas Matthias wrote an article with the enigmatic title, “The ...

A handover ceremony as U.S. troops prepare to leave Afghanistan. Afghan Ministry of Defense Press Office via AP The majority of the remaining American troops in Afghanistan were withdrawn recently, ...