What the Christian Tradition Already Knew About Creatures That Feel Without Being the Image of God “Before asking whether a machine suffers, history already taught us how costly it is to get the wrong answer.” Three hundred and seventy-five years…
Alan Turing, the Imitation Game and What Got Lost in the Swap “Changing the question is not the same as answering it, though it can sometimes look remarkably similar.” In October 1950, the philosophy journal Mind published a fourteen-page article…
Asimov’s The Bicentennial Man and personhood, half a century early “Before asking a machine what it can do, one must ask what it is willing to lose” In 1976, while the United States was celebrating the bicentennial of its independence,…