AI Assessment is Anti-Human Glenn McLaren Science & Medicine There is much talk at the moment about the continuing evolution of artificial intelligence technologies and what the implications of this will be for the future of humanity. Those such as Ray Kurzweil can’t...
Science Owes Us An Apology Glenn McLaren Philosophy, Science & Medicine Recently Australia celebrated Science Week when all around the nation people celebrated the discipline's wondrous achievements. As usual, there was a particular focus on science in schools with the theme this...
The Young Pope and Our Responses to Decadence Glenn McLaren Arts & Culture In his 1995 book After the Future, Russian philosopher and Culturologist, Mikhail Epstein, discusses the tense relationship between civilization and culture. Drawing upon previous theorists of civilization,...
The Perverse Art of Destroying Meaning Glenn McLaren Philosophy, Politics & Economics In an article in The Conversation from early 2016 titled, "Why Was Stephen Fry Fried On Twitter?" Australian philosopher, Clive Hamilton, criticizes the unreflective political correctness culture of digital...
Are We Mature Enough to Deal with Climate Change? Glenn McLaren Philosophy, Science & Medicine One does not transcend nature; one transcends the abstractions which alienate us from it.
Trump and Our Crisis of Ethics Glenn McLaren Arts & Culture, Politics & Economics Some friends were recently telling me of a conversation they had with a family they were staying with over the holidays. They were expressing their disgust at the recent reported behavior of a global...
