Code of Ethics for Students
A New Perspective on Ethical Use of AI Education does two vital things: first, it leads students as they develop their conception of what goodness looks like in the world; second, it provides the skill, courage, and wisdom for them to deploy their vision. Combined, these are essential to students flourishing. In the age of AI, ethics should not solely be viewed as restriction. Instead, it should be about awakening students' inner moral voices so that they can choose somethi
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Ethical Perspective for Education
Almost everyone has concerns of AI disrupting what we consider the “traditional education.” We hear people reiterate the same points about “critical thinking” and “student empowerment” over and over . . . But what do these concepts actually mean? AI has exponentiated its power, yet we’re stuck using the same aspirational place-holder language without any clear strategy to guide decisive action. How can we actualize these concepts into tangible improvements for students’ edu
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On Ambition
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art In the early 17th century, a Baroque printmaker by the name of Jacques Callot composed a series of etchings entitled The Seven Deadly Sins. In this series, Callot characterized each Deadly Sin in human form. One of the seven depicts a gaunt and disheveled woman clutching a venomous snake. It’s titled “Invidia,”meaning “Envy.” Four centuries later, the world’s most successful semiconductors company was founded, with a market capitalizati
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Materialism, Philosophy Zombies, and Logic: Don't Try Teleportation!
Traveling from New York to London by clicking a button sounds pretty great, right? No crowded airplanes needed, you’re just there in under a second. This is teleportation, the conception of instantaneous travel. Disappear in one place … and reappear in another. Often, people consider the possibility of a reconstruction-deconstruction teleporter machine: a system of two devices (one on the origin side and one on the destination side). The origin teleporter would scan a person
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