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The Avengers, Rogue Roombas, and Robot Accountability

By Hilary Ledwell and Michael Schulson

…r Michael Schulson and Yale Law School student Hilary Ledwell got together online to discuss killer Roombas, golems, and whether Tony Stark would be legally liable for the depredations of his fancy robot. Michael Schulson: You’ve been studying AI and the law, so I’m wondering: is the legal system ready for a robo-killer like Ultron? Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) using J.A.R.V.I.S., the AI computer that, according to the Marvel Cinematic Universe…

Ignoring the Pope on Climate Change is Not Like Using Contraception

By Kevin M. Lowe

…ision to have an abortion, or simply to get prenatal care or contraceptive services. He doesn’t want to hear from ‘his cardinals’ on economic issues, but apparently thinks the right wing’s religious views should dominate on the civil rights issue of allowing people to marry whomever they choose, regardless of gender.” The construal of climate change as divorced from morality is, as I argued in a previous piece, a fundamental misunderstanding of Ca…

Robot Kills a Worker in Germany… Who’s to Blame?

By Hilary Ledwell

…culation that the robot is, or should be, to blame has already run rampant online. This isn’t just idle speculation on Twitter. It’s a reflection of much deeper fears about the world to come. It was the cyborg! If you’ve ever kicked a TV or mumbled threats at your computer, you’re familiar with how easy it is to assign human agency to unconscious machines. We seem especially prone to anthropomorphizing them when they frustrate us. My toaster is in…

Is Monsanto Satan? The Pleasure and Problem of Conspiracy Theory

By Alan Levinovitz

…les and a book. The accusations began almost immediately. Again and again, online commenters accused me of being paid by Big Food to spread propaganda. And while Big Food consists of quite a few multinational corporations, commenters most often blamed my corruption on Monsanto, the agricultural biotechnology giant. Monsanto’s legendary depravity goes back for decades—they made Agent Orange for the government—earning it the nickname Monsatan (see #…

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…akes Uber. He doesn’t go grocery shopping because he buys his “staple food online like a civilized person.” He doesn’t go to the liquor store, because a company called Saucey delivers him wine. Opting out of owning a wasteful washing machine, Rhinehart has his clothing “custom made in China for prices you would not believe” and shipped to him regularly. After a few wears, he donates his “used garments.” This is an astonishing admission, in part be…

God Hates Nags: Why in God’s Name is Westboro Protesting Kim Davis?

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…s on annulments. Yet the dissonance is not fully resolved. For example, in online chatrooms and in advice columns, evangelical Christians continue to ask not only whether remarriage is permissible but whether holding or even merely attending a second wedding in a church is a violation of Christian sexual ethics. Almost unanimously, though, evangelical Christian culture permits divorce and remarriage for Christians. Theologically, evangelical Chris…

Hide the Religion, Feature the Science: 60 Minutes Drops the Ball on Mindfulness

By jeff wilson

…n Valley, and you can learn more about Cooper’s experiences by visiting an online extension of the report sponsored by Pfizer, the makers of Viagra. There’s a lot of money to be made off of the American consumer’s exhaustion, but the economics of the mindfulness juggernaut are left unexamined by Cooper. The 60 Minutes piece, basically a commercial for the allegedly de-Buddhified arm of the mindfulness movement, couldn’t be any more positive if it…

Thoreau’s Ferocious Critique of Philanthropy Does Not Make Him “Selfish”

By Alda Balthrop-Lewis

…would be joining the Witness Protection Program after her piece was posted online. But the truth is, it’s so easy to get the man wrong. I am sympathetic to the instinct that animates Schulz, the suspicion that Americans love Thoreau mostly because selfish individualism is our national religion and he is one of its loudest—or at least most famous—defenders. But Schulz’s reading of the man’s writing is facile. Where Thoreau writes—responding to the…

Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…down expansions of background checks that would include stricter limits to online and gun show purchases and the prevention of firearm sales to persons on the terror watch list. People of faith have a sacramental duty to hold lawmakers accountable for protecting the sacredness of human life. While we debated prayer and deconstructed the meaning of prayer in its myriad forms, how many actually thought about the victims—in San Bernardino, as well as…

Feminist Critics of Wearing Hijab in Solidarity Fall Into Same Old Traps

By Mariam Durrani

…ssions of earlier feminist debates. And that’s exactly where, I argue, the online Muslim community has been stuck over the last few days. Can we just stop for a minute? While I can agree with Nomani and Arafa’s critique of Wahhabi, Saudi-funded Islamist groups that support more conservative and often sexist ideologies and policies across the Muslim world, I’m hesitant to rope the hijab into this socio-political and economic constellation of issues…