... of speedups and how these affect risk, ethics and governance. Design/methodology/approach A brief review of science and trends followed by an analysis of consequences. Findings Current computation is far from the physical limits in terms of processing speed. Algorithmic improvements may be equally...

... Ethics Philosophy Artificial intelligence Intelligence Superintelligence Bostrom (2016) and other scholars (Haggstrom, 2016 ; Yudkowsky, 2008 ; Chalmers, 2010 ; Yampolskiy, 2015) have argued that humans will, absent defeaters, create a general artificial intelligence (AI)[ 1 ]. When...

... violence we are doing to truth. Wendell Bell can be contacted at: wendell.bell@yale.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Conflict Decision making Ethics Forward planning Information management Politics Then came the falling out among the Central Committee members...

...Emmanuel Smadja Purpose This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the ethical issues associated with nanoscale science and technology (NST). Design/methodology/approach This paper suggests the use of scenario planning (SP), an approach already widely utilized...

...Jacques Richardson Purpose The paper seeks to explore the relationship between the state and scientists, specifically regarding the ethical and moral issues of research and development of weapons and military technology. Design/methodology/approach Using a methodology...

... . 663 pp. (with index)   €39.90 , ISBN: 2 227 47296 0 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Terrorism Terror International relations Ethics Terrorism, stress these editors and their contributors, cannot be separated from terror. Terror itself is a technique used to contest...

...Jacques Richardson Pierre   Hassner . La terreur et l'empire (Terror and Empire) . Paris : Les Editions du Seuil 414 pp. (with index)   £21.50 , ISBN: 2 02 054428 8 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Terrorism Terror International relations Ethics...

... and engineering themselves shaped by social structures? This article looks at the need for futurists to consider the ethical dimensions of human genetics and critically reviews the bodies of thought in this area. Camford foresight/ vol.02, no.01, feb.00 th e jou rn al of futu res stu dies, strateg ic th inkin g...