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Editor's welcome
David Warden Editor Welcome to the March edition of Humanistically Speaking. Our theme this month is Artificial Intelligence and Robots....
David Warden
Feb 28, 20231 min read
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Humanist to lead university chaplaincy
Humanistically Speaking sends warm congratulations to James Frey Croft on his appointment as University Chaplain and Lead Faith Advisor...
News
Feb 28, 20231 min read
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Emails to the editor
From Eric Hayman In your 'Editor's welcome' last month, you wrote 'Human rights are a core element in humanist thinking, stemming from...
David Warden
Feb 28, 20233 min read
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Anime and Salvador Dali originals created at Windsor Humanists
Report by Anthony Lewis, Chair of Windsor Humanists In February, Windsor Humanists had an excellent talk from John Barron, a retired...
News
Feb 28, 20232 min read
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Artificial Intelligence - should we be worried?
By Maggie Hall, former Chair of Brighton Humanists Maggie Hall looks at a few pros and cons regarding AI and wonders to what extent we...
Maggie Hall
Feb 28, 20235 min read
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Ethical Androids: Can we teach robots to be moral?
Will androids eventually become moral agents, capable of acting both ethically and unethically?
Paul Ewans
Feb 28, 20235 min read
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The Final Frontier: Talking machines and evil cyborgs
By Aaron the Humanist Aaron has been a Star Trek and Sci-Fi fan since he was in single digits and he has often referenced Star Trek as...
Aaron the Humanist
Feb 28, 20236 min read
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What next for humans in an age of machines?
Report by David Warden, based on talks by Kate Devlin to Dorset Humanists and Humanists UK Dr Kate Devlin is Reader in Artificial...
David Warden
Feb 28, 20235 min read
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Death by Drone in Africa: A dystopian future awaits us if we're not vigilant
Drones in the hands of Terrorists threaten yet more death and destruction across Africa, are we already too late to prevent this ?
Lynda Tilley
Feb 28, 20234 min read
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Humanistic AI? You'll be lucky!
By Mike Flood Chair of Milton Keynes Humanists and the Future of Humanism Group In this article, Mike explores the worrying appropriation...
Mike Flood
Feb 28, 20234 min read
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Conversations with a Computer
By Daniel Dancey, treasurer of Dorset Humanists and a software engineer In this article, Daniel teams up with ChatGPT to explore some of...
danceydaniel
Feb 28, 202315 min read
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Don’t pAnIc - AI will save us all
AI is already all around us and could help us solve the mystery of consciousness. It might even save us from ourselves.
Anthony Lewis
Feb 28, 202314 min read
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Alan Turing (Part I - his life and achievements)
By John Coss, Vice Chair of Stockport Humanists Continuing our series of profiles of humanists who are not as widely known as they should...
John Coss
Feb 28, 20238 min read
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It's time for humanism to make its voice heard on AI
By Mike Flood Chair of Milton Keynes Humanists and the Future of Humanism Group In this article, Mike asks what impact AI might have on...
Mike Flood
Feb 28, 20235 min read
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How to create a book for children using AI
By John Barron, a retired computer scientist who has had a life long interest in AI I recently used ChatGPT to write the text and create...
John Barron
Feb 28, 20234 min read
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Will the real humanism please stand up? A response to 'Understanding Humanism'
Understanding Humanism by Andrew Copson, Luke Donnellan and Richard Norman was published in September 2022. Andrew is Chief Executive of...
David Warden
Feb 28, 20239 min read
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Poetry by ChatGPT appraised
By Susan Guiver Susan is a member of Milton Keynes Humanists We asked ChatGPT to write a poem about humanism and artificial intelligence...
David Warden
Feb 28, 20233 min read
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