The Buzz Blog
Sep 21 2018 | Mike Peña
Collin Anthony has joined the Ethics Center as its new Associate Director for Undergraduate Outreach. In that role, Collin is developing programming initiatives for undergrads across Stanford with the aim to create opportunities for ethical reflection outside the traditional classroom setting.
Jun 20 2018 | Gabriela Romero
The 11th annual Howard M. Garfield Forum featured a panel entitled “Apocalyptic AI: Religion, Artificial Intelligence, and the End of the World (as We Know It)” addressing the social and religious implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Tuesday event, co-sponsored by the Department of...
May 25 2018 | Michael Taylor
At about 5:00 in the evening, Walter Mosley stood at the podium where he would give his reading in two hours’ time. With his loose posture, his ladybug lapel pin, and his stylish fedora—a straw-colored number with black stripes that made it look he was standing in the shade of a pergola on a sunny...
May 11 2018 | Avery Rogers
This quarter, I enrolled in two ethics classes: one on effective altruism and the other about ethical questions “on the edge,” particularly those pertaining to technological advances and modern social problems. I had decided during winter quarter that I wanted to minor in ethics in society, simply...
May 10 2018 | Sara Button
A girl who can taste the emotions of whoever cooked her food. A little boy in a family of pumpkinheads born with an iron for a head. A woman whose husband has no lips. These are only a few of the characters that sprout from writer Aimee Bender’s untamed imagination, which was the topic of...
