Tag: conscience

  • Resisting AI

    Resisting AI

    Fans of generative AI keep trying to tell us that it’s inevitable and that we will be “left behind” if we do not adopt it. In reality, there are many people resisting it, documenting its failures, and refusing to use it.

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  • Ethical dilemmas around religious exemption

    Ethical dilemmas around religious exemption

    In a previous post, I looked at the possibility of being granted a religious exemption from using AI. This raises a possible dilemma: if people of conscience can get religious exemptions from harmful activities like war and other forms of causing suffering to others, how is that different from allowing bigots to opt out of registering same-sex marriages, or baking a cake for same-sex weddings, or allowing anti-vaxxers to opt out of getting vaccines?

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