Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the observance of the National Sanctity of Human Life Day, a day recognized by advocacy groups, religious organizations and conservative activists who seek to ...

Why Psychologists Haven’t Agreed on the Basic Human Values—Until Now Personality traits are stable patterns in the way we think, feel, and behave (Johnson, 1997, p. 74). In a previous PT post, I ...

Imagine a world where the boundaries of biology are no longer fixed—a world where life can be created in a lab, where artificial intelligence can preserve a version of you long after you’re gone, and ...

In an earlier post on values and personality, I explained why values could be considered a type of personality trait. Personality traits are typically defined as "consistent patterns of thoughts, ...

Many of the challenges we address here were evident to the pioneers of medical decision analysis of the 1950s 7 and to scholars in subsequent decades 8-11 who conducted careful and creative studies of ...

My colleagues and I at Purdue University have uncovered a significant imbalance in the human values embedded in AI systems. The systems were predominantly oriented toward information and utility ...