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The Design Ethics of Autonomous Machines
In this presentation, I describe and explain why ethics has become even more salient as autonomous machines move out from factories and laboratories into the open, complex and unpredictable environment of cities.
HASS Talk: Nature–Nurture Through the Lens of Cross-Generational Cultural Transmission by Dr. Ryutaro Uchiyama
From Galton to GWAS, the modern nature–nurture debate has remained rooted in a static conception of the human environment for the last 150 years. In reality, our environments are profoundly shaped by the cross-generational dynamics of cultural transmission, which channel human brain development into otherwise unreachable trajectories. In this talk, I describe a theoretical framework that describes the integration of these cumulative cultural dynamics with the study of cognitive development.
HASS Talk: Meat is Murder: Southeast Asia’s Oldest Ethical Code
In this talk, Alastair Gornall will introduce his team’s MOE-funded research on pre-colonial, Southeast Asian natural philosophy and ecological thought.