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2024-04-07 Could Robots Be Persons?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What would it mean to assign legal or moral responsibility to algorithms in human form?

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
2415: Could Robots Be Persons?, 4/9/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What would it mean to assign legal or moral responsibility to algorithms in human form?

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2408: The Social Lives of Robots, 2/20/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can social intelligence be taught to non-social beings?

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Should We Erase Bad Memories?
From: Open to Debate
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Similar to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, neurotechnology techniques like decoded neurofeedback open the possibility of modifying or erasin...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
2023-08-13 Making a Better World
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can moral philosophy make us better people?

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
2333: Making a Better World, 8/15/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Can moral philosophy make us better people?

  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Is Elon Musk Killing Twitter?
From: Open to Debate
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These days, the bird’s the word. Since shelling out $44 billion for Twitter, critics say Elon Musk is knocking the social media giant off its perch...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
2023-06-11 The Rhetoric of Big Tech
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What do Ayn Rand, Martin Heidegger, and Samuel Beckett have to do with Silicon Valley?

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 14
Johann Hari: Get Your Mind Back / Save Democracy?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Are we too distracted to think? The answer is worse than you’d expect. In his latest book, New York Times bestselling author Johann Hari says we’re...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
2022-01-08 Can Streets Discriminate?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Could the design of our streets be a matter of justice?

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
2022-06-05 Conscious Machines
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Would a race of thinking, autonomous, conscious machines be our slaves, our masters, or our partners?

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2021-12-26 The Examined Year: 2021
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Because the un-examined year is not worth reviewing!

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Post-Pandemic College Experience
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Coronavirus concerns forced many universities to close their campuses this fall. The mix of fewer students on campus, canceled athletics, and onlin...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:12
2020-12-06 Are We Alone?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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If there is intelligent life beyond Earth, how would that change life ON Earth?

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Present Shock - Tech: Existential Threat or Life Support?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we ...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
How the Diversity Industry Is Failing - Pamela Newkirk
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, the proportion of African Americans in tech, me...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Alvaro Bedoya: Privacy and Civil Rights in the Age of Facebook, ICE, and the NSA
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Right: U.S. Sen. Dennis Chavez (NM); Right: Professor Alvaro Bedoya
What is the history of surveillance in the US? What are its implications for today's activists, immigrants, and people of color? Professor Alvaro B...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 57:53
The Mad Military Money Machine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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There’s something sick about US Military spending. It’s certainly not keeping anyone safe. This week, why we the public spend billions on bad techn...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Ethics of Drone Warfare
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are drones the herald of a more sanitized and efficient form of war, or do they represent the dystopian reign of uncaring technologies?

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Monstrous Technologies?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How do we ensure that the Victor Frankensteins of the future unleash no new monsters on the world?

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
2021-04-18 The Ethics of Algorithms
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Would you trust your life to an algorithm?

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Missing Humanities
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Dr. Homi Bhabha at the Oxford bookstore in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
The CEO of Tech Mahindra said that the top 10 IT companies in India only take 6% of the engineering graduates. What happens to the other 94% he won...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Amputees
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Generational discussion on amputee issues over the ages

  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00