Every society tends to think that its values, customs, and norms are the default values for the whole of humanity . Even where there is...

A thinking machine or a collection of thinking machines may not knowingly harm humanity or by inaction allow humanity to come to harm ....

Humans will want to exert a control over the activities of Thinking Machines when these are material to human interests. This will be...

This subject can be traced back to the three ‘Laws of Robotics’ laid down by Isaac Asimov in Runaround. I, Robot -  the fictional...

Given the impressive and ever more impressive results of AI there are many well publicised efforts being made to draw up standards and...

Calculating machines or Computers can be built to make many calculations far faster and in far greater numbers than can the human mind. ...

At the end of a defence of his knight errantry Don Quixote exclaims at great length that knights errant are outside all judicial...

There are many stories about exploitation - of resources and people. There is little about the economics - finding the money (resources)...