Tag: technology
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AI Foundations: Moral Cognition and Universal Principles
The traditional approach to AI ethics, developing principles and guidelines after systems are built, has proven inadequate. Major technology companies routinely publish ethical AI principles while simultaneously deploying systems that violate these very principles in practice. A comprehensive study by Stanford University’s Human-Centered AI Institute found that while many technology companies have released AI principles,…
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Code of Complicity: How the Tech Industry Enables Genocide and Silences Ethical Dissent
The author critiques the ethical implications of technology used in warfare, highlighting how AI systems facilitate violence in Gaza. It emphasizes the Islamic concept of wilāyah, urging tech professionals to recognize their moral responsibility. Companies suppress dissent from employees expressing solidarity with the oppressed, prioritizing profit over justice.
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What is Missing at the Heart of the Islam and Science Nexus?
This centuries-old question may have crossed every Muslim’s mind from the late 19th century until recently. However, the answers offered by scholars and activists are varied and at times at odds with one another. This reflects a general lack of understanding of the issue by many parties, all adding to the confusion of an already…
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Religion and the Posthuman Discourse
Looking at Cyborg Selves by Jeanine Thweatt-Bates and her approach to the posthuman from a Christian perspective.
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Reviving Writing
A brief gloss on print culture would be instructive in understanding the historical relationship between oral cultures and the written word.
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Technology as a Mode of Secular-Liberal Theology
It has become a redundant trope among critical Muslims within Islam and the non-Muslim critics of Islam to gleefully point out what they consider to be the absolute passivity of “the Islamic world” in the fields of science and technology.