Ethics
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Social contract: Escaping the technocratic trap
When efficiency and profit outrank compassion, people become data points. Cardinal McElroy insists that work means agency, relationship and contribution.
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Stories of suffering need more than outrage
Personal stories keep policy human, but they can hide trade-offs, breed self-righteousness and blind us to the imperfection of every system.
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Who protects institutions from people who run them?
Infantino’s Football World Cup proposal shows how easily leaders can treat the financialisation of civic and not-for-profit institutions they don’t own as personal property.
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The machine has no judgment — and that matters
Artificial intelligence is not truly intelligent. It lacks the synthetic, creative capacity of the human mind, relying instead on pattern-matching algorithms that remain subject to the oldest computing problem: flawed inputs produce flawed outputs, no matter how sophisticated the system.
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