Technoethics

“The post-Babel situation is, according to Haidt, a disaster and the ‘best metaphor he has encountered’ for ‘the fractured country we now inhabit.’ Haidt imagines the post-Babel world to be one in which people wandered amid the ruins of the destroyed city ‘unable to communicate, condemned to mutual incomprehension.’” - Law & Liberty

SBC’s “North American Mission Board (NAMB) and Send Network partnered with Dan Darling, author of A Way with Words, to create a free web course at NewChurches.com called “Using Online Conversations for Good” - BPnews

“Transhumanism is far from a household term, but, whether or not they use the word publicly, its adherents are in places of power…. Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is devoted to boosting ‘cognition’ and co-founded the company Neuralink toward that end.” - Slate

“Americans’ wariness about this wide arc of emergent developments runs through many of the survey’s findings.” - Pew

“…that immersive power should raise questions. … What happens, for example, if VR safety protocols can’t filter out disturbing content? But the more powerful dilemmas are Class 2 questions or ‘What happens if this technology does work perfectly?’” - Breakpoint

“The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or Coppa, was passed in 1998 for an internet that is now a distant memory. …It’s time to update Coppa to make it easier for parents to guide their children’s tech use and protect them from harmful content and communications.” - IFS

“We are not immune to the digital era. If we fight it, we will lose. At the same time, if we act like a leaf tossed into a stream and simply abandon biblical convictions, we will drift from our central purpose.” - Benjamin Windle

“a Neo-Luddite outlook assumes that technology, not human nature, is responsible for the world’s evils. This, too, is on the rise … the idea that humanity’s ancestors lived in a state of harmonious bliss with the Earth and each other. This doesn’t just miss the point: It encourages a quixotic fight against humanity’s tools, while ignoring their souls.” - Breakpoint

“In a letter … the ERLC’s acting president, told Biden including leaders of faith communities on federal advisory bodies would help guarantee that religious liberty and freedom of expression are priorities in such issues as artificial intelligence” - BPNews

“A few weeks ago, the billionaire founder of Facebook announced the company’s new venture, “Meta.” The idea is to create a world of simulations in which people can, broadly, live their lives.” - Breakpoint