Editor's welcome
David Warden Editor Welcome to the March edition of Humanistically Speaking. Our theme this month is Artificial Intelligence and Robots....
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News
- Feb 28
- 1 min
Humanist to lead university chaplaincy
Humanistically Speaking sends warm congratulations to James Frey Croft on his appointment as University Chaplain and Lead Faith Advisor...
David Warden
- Feb 28
- 3 min
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...
News
- Feb 28
- 2 min
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...
Maggie Hall
- Feb 28
- 5 min
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...
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- Feb 28
- 5 min
Ethical Androids: Can we teach robots to be moral?
Will androids eventually become moral agents, capable of acting both ethically and unethically?
Aaron the Humanist
- Feb 28
- 6 min
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...
David Warden
- Feb 28
- 5 min
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...
Lynda Tilley
- Feb 28
- 4 min
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 ?
Mike Flood
- Feb 28
- 4 min
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...
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- Feb 28
- 15 min
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...
Anthony Lewis
- Feb 28
- 14 min
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.
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- Feb 28
- 8 min
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...
Mike Flood
- Feb 28
- 5 min
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...
John Barron
- Feb 28
- 4 min
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...
David Warden
- Feb 28
- 9 min
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
- 3 min
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
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Editor's welcome
Welcome to the February edition of Humanistically Speaking with theme of human rights. Human rights are a core priority for humanists.
David Warden
- Jan 31
- 2 min
End persecution of alleged witches in Africa
By Leo Igwe Leo is a Nigerian human rights advocate and humanist The Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW) needs your support this year to...
David Warden
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Manifesto on the Future of Humanism launched
A new 'Manifesto on the Future of Humanism' is published exclusively for our readers in this month's edition of Humanistically Speaking....
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