AI and Religion

March 2018 Pulse Reader’s Question: How would you envision pastoral ministry in an age of robots with Artificial Intelligence. I would like to broaden the question by examining some of the ways in which AI could impact religion, and the issues and questions this might...

Who Is Responsible?

June 2016 Pulse Without doubt one of the most fascinating and rapidly developing fields in modern technology is robotics. From surgical robots to DNA nano-robots capable of bipedal motion, the advances in this field in the past decade have been so staggering and...

AI and Society

August 2015 Pulse In the summer of 1956, a group of scientists gathered at the campus of Dartmouth University for a two-month workshop that would launch the modern artificial intelligence (AI) programme. At the end of the workshop, MIT scientists Marvin Minsky, Claude...