Frank Pasquale

Sep 18, 2024 | asianews.network | Frank Pasquale

September 19, 2024 SEOUL – Google CEO Sundar Pichai has characterized AI as “the most profound technology humanity is working on. More profound than fire, electricity, or anything that we have done in the past.” The hype around “existential risk” in AI follows a similar narrative, analogizing it to Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb. Such grand pronouncements have stirred many a corporate board and government agency to develop AI deployment plans.

Apr 14, 2024 | firstmonday.org | Abeba Birhane |Jelle van Dijk |Frank Pasquale

Abstract In this work we challenge the argument for robot rights on metaphysical, ethical and legal grounds. Metaphysically, we argue that machines are not the kinds of things that may be denied or granted rights. Building on theories of phenomenology and post-Cartesian approaches to cognitive science, we ground our position in the lived reality of actual humans in an increasingly ubiquitously connected, controlled, digitized, and surveilled society.

Nov 15, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | Frank Pasquale |Paul Moses |Nick Fagnant |Jonathan Malesic

Interested in discussing this article in your classroom, parish, reading group, or Commonweal Local Community? Click here for a free discussion guide. Arthur O. Lovejoy’s 1936 book, The Great Chain of Being, tells the story of a remarkably durable conception of humanity’s place in the cosmos. Imagine every mineral, plant, and animal arrayed vertically, from least to greatest.

Nov 1, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | Frank Pasquale |Dominic Preziosi |Shaun Blanchard |Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

Interested in discussing this article in your classroom, parish, reading group, or Commonweal Local Community? Click here for a free discussion guide. Arthur O. Lovejoy’s 1936 book, The Great Chain of Being, tells the story of a remarkably durable conception of humanity’s place in the cosmos. Imagine every mineral, plant, and animal arrayed vertically, from least to greatest.