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Overview of anti-euthanasia arguments. It's possible to argue about the way we've divided up the arguments, and many arguments could fall into more categories than we've used. Eth ...

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Recent studies have found that “many ordinary people prefer an AI’s ethical reasoning to human reasoning, and even to the reasoning of the Ethicist column in the New York Times,” said Joshua May, Ph.D ...

You’re reading Superintelligent, a newsletter about AI. Click here to get the full edition in your inbox. Thomas Rid is a professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University. A cultural rift is ...

The moral argument for not making laws about many—especially victimless—activities is that people have a right to live their own lives so long as they don't hurt anybody else. That's a convincing case ...

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