People who care deeply about animals, the environment and human wellbeing may have good moral reasons to support cultivated meat, according to new research.

Unlike humans or animals, artificial intelligences can be designed to care about anything. Their preferences, aversions, and ...

Thomas Plante (@ThomasPlante) is the Augustin Cardinal Bea, SJ University Professor, professor of psychology and, by courtesy, religious studies at Santa Clara University and an emeritus adjunct ...

On Jan. 9–10, the program sponsored a symposium titled “The Beauty of Truth: Navigating Society Today as a Catholic Woman,” ...

Encouraging people to mistake digital companions for real friends is prima facie unethical. Encouraging people to have imaginary friends is no solution to social isolation. There is a risk that the ...

Humans are wired to fixate on the sting of a small wrong, even when it's buried beneath a ...

Pretti’s death is a tragedy. But tragedy is not a template. Turning it into a masculinity myth does not honor the dead. It ...

Instead of trying to "tame" a greedy algorithm, we need an architecture where intelligence and virtue are literally the same piece of code.

Five years ago, as Australia burned through the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires, then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison was photographed relaxing on a Hawaiian beach. When he returned, his ...

The report claims “there is no evidence of benefit” from gender-affirming care for minors, while ignoring the many studies that show consistent short- and medium-term benefits. The report concludes ...

Chatbots don’t have mothers, but if they did, Claude’s would be Amanda Askell. She’s an in-house philosopher at the AI ...