In the fight against COVID-19, weighing costs and benefits is indispensable for moral clarity. At the same time, we must not forget its limits. One way that measurement can distort the choice is by virtue of an excessive focus on what is easily measurable instead of what ought to be measured. Many graphs, for example, […]
Debtors of the World, Unite!
Debt’s ubiquity is a burden, but also an opportunity. Millions of debtors, isolated, are owned by the banks. But if you’re part of a collective that owes $14.15 trillion, you all own the banks. The point of debtors’ unions is not merely debt cancellation or even robust public goods handed to us by state power. It is […]
A Handful of Super-Corporations Control The Fate of The World, Chilling Report Shows
This is a vital signal for anyone concerned with economic justice, democracy and the rule of laws of-for-by democratically determined societies. “TNCs have become a defining feature of the interconnected planet of people and nature, with humans as a hyper-dominant species in the biosphere affecting global patterns of ecological change.” A small group of super-powerful […]
A moral map for AI cars – reveal that moral choices are not universal
The Moral Machine Experiment – Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles. How do different cultures value human life? To find out, researchers created a viral online experiment to gather data from millions of participants across the world. Some values generalised across cultures, but others came as a surprise. When a driver […]
Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens
Altogether over 2 billion people are engaged in systems that embed them in a context of a form of moral accounting – from ‘likes’ to ratings. The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents On June […]