Theology of religion has come a long way from the nomenclature of people other than Christians as pagans, heathens, non-Christian to people of other faith. The crux of the issue is not lexicology and the significance of the role and place of salvation in these other religions. The exclusive belonging to the visible Church for salvation is no longer...
Encoding Ethics in AI
We cannot simply apply the utilitarian approach to AI. If we do that the so-called trolley problem will be served by killing one person in order to save five human beings. This mode of thinking is certainly not valuing human life. Besides, no harm to humans or the Asimov’s first law or even Kant’s categorical imperative will not prevent...
Theology of Speed
We live in an accelerated society. What is this acceleration doing to our faith? Is there a theology of speed? Kosuke Koyama in his book, Three Mile an Hour God, appears to strive to present such a theology. Such theology is an urgent need of the hour as the faithful as well as the leadership in the Church are...
The Dharma of AI
The posthumanities approach to an ethics for artificial intelligence takes us to Indian ethics. It is because Indian metaphysics is not anthropocentric as we can find in the West. But some of us may say Indian metaphysics is radically anthropocentric as it reduces everything to eschatological anthropology. This is so because the belief in the law of Karma makes...
Digital After Life and the Moral Status of our Digital Clone
The future of AI is beginning to look rather human. This is so because AI is an invention of humans . Besides, it is humans who orient direction of growth of AI. We are fast going to have an AI image of us . This AI clones of us will talk and behave exactly like us . Besides, we...
Moral status of Neuroprosthetsis
It is agreed in all quarters that technology of brain computer interface (BCI) is all set to improve human consciousness . Besides offering therapy for several medical conditions that we face today, It is thought that it will enhance performance. The advancement of BCI is said to make humans more productive and efficient as well as more understanding, expressive...
Morality and AI
Is all ethics human-centric. Is it, therefore, anthropocentric?This human-centric ethics is simply reductive and looks at everything from the privileged position of being human. Can ethics be post-human-centric ? Humanities produced disciplinary societies. The knowledge project of these societies was human-centric. We can see how sociology. Economics. History etc ., are concerned with human affairs. Posthumanities attempts to overcome...
Moral Status of Electronic/Digital People
Research directed to the whole brain emulation raises important issues about the possibility of AI reaching a state of consciousness. Whole brain emulation is an attempt to replicate the functionality of human brain in a software. This project might usher in dramatic new forms of intelligence. This is why it is likely that AI may also exhibit some form...
Moral Status of AI
Can an AI be ethical agent? It certainly exhibits intelligence. Does it exhibit autonomy? Machine learning AI seems to be exhibiting some level of autonomy. This is why there is a debate about bestowing personhood on AI. Besides, can an AI become a moral guide for humans? Chat-Gpt-3 claims that it can be a good guide to solve some...
Digital Identity Theft and its Impact
It has been a day or two that I suddenly woke up to the fact of theft of my digital identity. Identity theft disturbs our peace leaving us anxious. It is a serious breach of online privacy and safety. I also sadly discovered that digital IDs of some of my priest colleagues were also stolen. Although, for now it...
