Several months ago, I argued that artificial intelligence raises ethical questions. The assumption that technological progress automatically produces human progress has appeared repeatedly throughout modern history. It was present in parts of the Enlightenment, resurfaced in certain strands of neoclassical economics, and continues to shape contemporary discussions surrounding artificial intelligence. Yet ethics may represent only part of the challenge posed by AI. A second an

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is almost synonymous with German humanism. In the late eighteenth century, Goethe was not only a writer. He was also a state official in the Duchy of Saxe - Weimar - Eisenach , legally trained, institutionally empowered, and administratively responsible. One capital case confirmed under this administrative order would later become the basis of Viktor Glass’s documentary novel Goethes Hinrichtung . Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goethes-Hinrichtung

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