I’ve recently been interviewed for the Lancaster University Management School alumni magazine, 54 Degrees. You can read the feature below:
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Humans, robots and rules: what the Covid-19 pandemic tells us about decision-making and rules
As we all set ourselves up for weeks, or even months, of self-isolation, never has there been a better time to think about rules, and the reasons we do the things that we do.
While the UK government has imposed new rules, telling us that we need to stay at home, these rules are only ever an approximation of the ideal rule, which in this case, is the idea that everyone needs to stay at home. The issue here is that while universal isolation is all well and good in theory, we still need health workers and we still need to keep the electricity flowing and the water running.
Continue readingAppearance on TRTWorld’s ‘ROBOTS: time to think about the laws?’
I was recently invited to take part in a roundtable discussion for TRTWorld’s Vision 2020 series. You can watch the show below.
Continue readingIt could be time to start thinking about a cybernetic Bill of Rights
Like it or loathe it, the robot revolution is now well underway and the futures described by writers such as Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl and Philip K. Dick are fast turning from science fiction into science fact. But should robots have rights? And will humanity ever reach a point where human and machine are treated the same?
Continue readingDwayne Johnson and the myth of hard work
Everywhere you look these days, people are ‘working hard’ on social media, telling us about their lives, their jobs, their children and all the many things they do to fill up their time. And when they’re not working hard, they’re spending their time telling us about how hard they’re working, or how much they’ve deserved the break they’ve given themselves from all the hard work.
But what really is work, and why do we do it? Is there even such a thing as working too hard?
I can’t say that I have all of the answers at this point, but I do have several thoughts…
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