Advancements in technology are aimed at making life safer, easier, and more enjoyable. Could we end up surrendering something in the process; moral agency and personal responsibility? And what might that trade get us? ----more---- Topics: The Singularity Saints Podcast celebrates its first birthday! First Things: Algorithm Religion by John Waters https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/12/algorithm-religion John Waters a Neo-Luddite? https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/phone-texts-send-wrong-message-1.1295731 Autonomous Vehicles and decision making with moral weight Willingly surrendering moral agency to artificial intelligence AI versus human driving capabilities AI versus human values in decision making Benefits in the aggregate versus consequences in the specific Computer Weekly: How Soon Will We Be Driving Autonomous Cars by Zach Emmanuel https://www.computerweekly.com/news/450429466/How-soon-will-we-be-driving-fully-autonomous-cars   Predictions of Andrew Lee, Octo Telematics Who or what bears legal responsibility for the actions of AI? Defining moral agency https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/moral-agent Assessing moral agency and human relations Foundations for moral responsibility Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Moral Responsibility https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-responsibility/ Moral responsibility and power Good Samaritan laws and Duty to Rescue laws Moral responsibility and freedom Surrendering moral responsibility to something that cannot have moral agency Death caused by Robots Think Artificial: The First Humans Killed by Robots http://www.thinkartificial.org/aesthetics/the-first-human-killed-by-a-robot/ Robert Williams and Kenji Urada Government views on responsibility of autonomous vehicles Wired: Feds Say They'll Count Computers As Human Drivers by Alex Davies https://www.wired.com/2016/02/feds-say-theyll-count-computers-as-human-drivers/ National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s letter to Google Robert Kane on moral responsibility https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-responsibility/ Social outcomes of ethical abdication to AI Laws and the ideals of justice Crimes without perpetrators Forbes: A Robot Really Committed A Crime: Now What? By Ryan Calo https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryancalo/2014/12/23/a-robot-really-committed-a-crime-now-what/#74760e6d6e55 Social policy shaped by trusting AI For the Church Godlike trust in AI and idolatry God and moral neutrality Moral responsibility in Old Testament Making a place to discuss these issues Christian citizen’s influence on public policy Looking Ahead Sweating electronics for temperature control https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mobile-phones-in-the-future-could-sweat-to-keep-cool-thanks-to-a-perspiring-material-just-three-times-as-thick-as-a-human-hair/ar-BBZdPW8 Passages Referenced Psalm 97:10 Psalm 5:4-6 1 Timothy 2:3-6 Exodus 21:33-34   Facebook: fb.me/SGSTPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/SGSTPodcast   Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/  ) “For the Church Segment” transition music: Marketing from Skibka Music. (https://freesound.org/people/SkibkaMusic/  )