One reason for the widespread suspicion about military drones is the lack of a person directly operating the vehicle from inside. The crucial point here seems to be that delegating critical operational tasks to a machine implies an overall reduction of control. In this guest post, Ezio Di Nucci argues, that this view stems from a flawed assessment of the concept of control.
Wasatia is the core idea of Mohammed S. Dajani’s movement to foster peace and well-being in the Palestinian community. Can it also bring justice to the Middle East?
On June 5th Switzerland will vote on the introduction of an unconditional basic income. According to GAEI President Nikolaus Knoepffler, such an income creates wrong incentives and mixes up solidarity with justice.
Switzerland is the first country ever to vote on the implementation of an unconditional basic income. In their guest post Daniel Häni and Philip Kovce explain why this is a milestone in the advancement of democracy.
Book review „Human Dignity: The Constitutional Value and the Constitutional Right“ by Aharon Barak (CUP, 2015)
When it comes to euthanasia, at first sight more options seem to equal more freedom. However, Neil Levy’s guest post outlining the „paradox of choice“ argues that this view might be wrong.
In this guest post Rachel New and Nadira Faber explain how psychologically informed framing may help people to adopt a climate friendly behaviour in their everday lifes.
As humans, robot’s commanders are not infallible. In this Guest Post Matthias Scheutz argues that to truly act in their inventor’s interest, robots need to be able to disobey instructions.
In light of its therapeutic prospects, GAEI board member Julian Savulescu argues for the moral endorsement of gene-editing on human embryos