Technology

We rush to consider the personhood of AI, but we neglect to extend the rights it should confer to the marginalized among us.

The Church has so far failed to provide nuanced guidance on technological ethics. But it’s not too late to become a prophetic voice on the subject.

The perils and promise of AI aren’t merely abstract. They’re also material.

How has entering the digital world changed our conceptions of the way we live our lives?

Why preserve for posterity, or at all, what is by definition scarcely meant to endure beyond the moment?

The extent to which Facebook prioritizes profits over safety is especially alarming in light of just how integrated Facebook has become across the globe.

The terms of service of nearly every app make personal data commercially available.

Sometimes our most constant sources of anxiety and frustration also deserve our deepest gratitude.

Who poses a greater threat to American freedom: the SVR or Silicon Valley?

Living with a rare heart condition led Gabriel Brownstein to chart the advances in coronary medicine over the centuries.

For Millenials, “burnout isn’t just a temporary affliction. It’s our contemporary condition.”

Joanna Kavenna’s latest dystopian novel tackles surveillance capitalism and artificial intelligence with sharp satire, intelligence, and faith in the human spirit.

The evolving scientific consensus against racial hierarchies strengthens church teachings about equality and human dignity.

Today, fantastic thinking and a sense of dispossession do not exists solely in the conspiracist’s mind; it has pervaded our polity.

President Trump’s use of Twitter and other mass media effectively subverts the criminal-justice system. Congress needs to hold him accountable.

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood are an unlikely group of Amazon shareholders, but they’re forcing a vote on the company’s facial recognition software.