November 2025 Blog

Technodao and the Moral Grammar of AI Heup Young Kim Rethinking AI ethics from control to formation by aligning design with dignity through East Asian virtue and Christian humility. 1) From Control to Meaning Debates about artificial intelligence often circle around capability and control—who builds, who commands, who benefits. These are necessary questions. Yet underneath them lies something quieter and more decisive: What kind of beings are we becoming through our technologies? If ethics is only a set of rules applied after the fact, it will always trail the pace of innovation. What we need is not merely additional regulation but a renewed sense of moral grammar that shapes our practical reason, our imagination of the good, and our life together. Here, the philosopher Charles Taylor is a

The Contribution of Religion to Ethics by Michael J. Reiss

How should we decide what is morally right and what is morally wrong? For much of human history, the teachings of religion were presumed to be a large part of the answer. Over time, two developments challenged this. The first was the establishment of the discipline of moral philosophy. Foundational texts, such as Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, and the growth of coherent, non-religious approaches to ethics, notably utilitarianism, served to marginalise the role of religion. And then the twentieth century saw the rapid growth of evolutionary biology with an enthusiastic presumption that biology was the source of ethics. What space do such developments leave for religion in ethics?   One can be most confident about the validity and worth of an ethical conclusion if three

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