The AI Intervention

  When the Vatican announced last month that Pope Francis would be the first Roman pontiff to address the G7 Summit—a meeting of the world’s leading national economic powers—I considered it a unique opportunity for the voice of the Church to be heard in the hearts, minds,...
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More Like the Machines?

  Based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the classic science fiction movie Blade Runner features robots so life-like they’re indistinguishable from human beings. Machines Like Me, a more recent work by Ian McEwan, confronts the same...
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Wesley Smith on Artificial Intelligence: via First Things

The existence of a human soul may be a contentious issue these days, but regardless of whether we each have one, a manufactured machine surely would not. –Wesley Smith AI Machines: Things, not Persons    
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