by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 5, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 5 August 2024 In June 2024, The Straits Times published an article about deathbots entitled ‘An Eerie “Digital Afterlife” Is No Longer Science Fiction.’ Through the use of virtual reality technology and AI, it is now possible for the bereaved to interact with...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 29, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 29 July 2024 One of the most significant virtues that has energised and shaped the Olympics since its founding in 776 BCE is respect. In the spirit of the Olympics, which strives for integrity and excellence, the virtue of respect is extremely important in...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 15, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 15 July 2024 In a recent article, I examined the technologism of the Transhumanist movement, especially the naïve confidence it places in what technoscience can do to shape the future of the human species. I explained that transhumanists are sanguine about the...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 1, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 1 July 2024 One of the most distinctive features of the Transhumanist project is its unflagging confidence that the advances of science and technology will usher humanity into a marvellous post-human future. No one has expressed this more sharply than Ray...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 17, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 17 June 2024 On May 8, 2024, Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam delivered a ministerial statement in which he declared that Singapore is waging a war against drugs. He stressed that thousands will suffer if the nation-state does not take this war seriously...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 3, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 3 June 2024 On 2 and 3 November 2023, delegates from 27 governments around the world, including the heads of artificial intelligence companies, gathered at a museum at Bletchley Park near London for the world’s first AI Safety Summit. A Bletchley Declaration on...
