When your president acts more like Hitler killing the masses rather than a savior to Christians maybe it's time to get rid of him as president?
Friday, April 17, 2026
Existential questions in regard to AI?
What does it mean if a computer can do our jobs better than we can? What happens when people turn to machines for comfort and friendship? What is creativity if creativity can be automated?
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The first question I will try to answer from my point of view.
If the AI can do your job better than you can is it going to steal your job. Quite Likely.
What happens when people turn to machines for comfort and friendship? Sometimes these people commit suicide eventually. However, some seem to be okay. it depends upon the person and what they are personally dealing with.
what is creativity if Creativity can be automated?
This to me is an interesting question. However, often the answer is much different than you might think.
Automated creativity isn't really creativity at all it is a simulation of human creativity not real Creativity.
It would be like a TV Robot watching you make Scrambled eggs and then with that video emulating you making Scrambled eggs exactly like you do. Do you add grated cheese or something else? Do you like the eggs whipped up with little air pockets inside of them. Do you like to cook these scrambled eggs in Butter or something else?
When it emulates you making your scrambled eggs it is just watching you do this and emulating what you are doing. It's not being Creative it's just replicating whatever you are doing.
Can AI have original Thoughts? Maybe.
But, I think original thoughts would be in the nature of AGI not just AI.
What is AGI?
begin quotes:Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a theoretical type of artificial intelligence that matches or surpasses human capabilities across virtually all ...
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May 14, 2025 — AGI is a theory describing how an artificial intelligence (AI) could reach or surpass the abilities of an average human.
The philosopher trying to teach ethics to AI developers: Full written article (also a podcast)
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The philosopher trying to teach ethics to AI developers
The philosopher trying to teach ethics to AI developers
The AI avalanche has buried many of us in uncomfortable, existential questions. What does it mean if a computer can do our jobs better than we can? What happens when people turn to machines for comfort and friendship? What is creativity if creativity can be automated?
Philosopher Meghan Sullivan says this crisis isn't just felt by the average person who feels like AI is happening to them. On recent trips to Silicon Valley, she has spoken with many AI developers who feel conflicted. "Around here, as a result of this ubiquity of artificial intelligence, a whole lot of people are having these philosophical questions and crises right now, which make them really fun to talk to," Sullivan says.
Sullivan is a philosophy professor at Notre Dame and the author of The Good Life Method: Reasoning Through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning. Through Notre Dame's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, she is meeting with AI leaders and developers to apply an ethical framework for AI — basically give AI a moral compass. Her mission is as ambitious as it sounds, but she is backed by Notre Dame's $50.8 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to champion philosophy and theology in the national conversation around AI.
Her reception in Silicon Valley has been mixed. She describes occasionally hearing comments akin to: "That's cute that you think that topics like virtue and justice could still be relevant in our world." But she finds that most developers are open and genuinely curious about philosophy. "I come out here, and I think, my gosh, I've been training for this for 25 years to have this conversation with you, says Sullivan. "And I'm so glad that now you're ready to do it."
In March, she attended Anthropic's 2-day summit, where Christian leaders discussed how Claude should approach the messy moral questions humans are bringing to chatbots. For instance, how should Claude react to a user who's grieving? What should it do when someone is at risk for self-harm?
Meghan Sullivan delivering her TED Talk in 2025
As a virtue ethicist, Sullivan's field of philosophy centers around moral habits and practical wisdom. It's a school of thought that dates back to Aristotle in the early days of democracy in Athens. Having this background, Sullivan has a knack for making philosophy accessible to students, readers and now tech developers and executives. Whether in her classroom in South Bend or at a conference in Silicon Valley, Sullivan doesn't preach, she asks questions — by following the Socratic method — that help her audience realize they have more options than they've let themselves believe. "Those kinds of limitations in our imagination, those are one of the hardest forces for us to overthrow if we actually want to achieve flourishing," says Sullivan.
You still have a choice. Here's what you can do
Whether they're developers directly shaping AI or regular citizens navigating it, Sullivan's goal is to wake people up to their own agency. There are more paths towards the good life than we have been brave enough to imagine. "It's totally in the interest of politicians and very powerful corporate leaders to make you feel like you have no choice, says Sullivan. "You always have some choice. It might sometimes be a hard choice, but you do have it."
You can choose which companies you give your money and your data to. The dust has not settled, so Sullivan says we still need to use our voices where we can. "There's power in the purse. There's power in a democracy to vote, and there's power in capitalism to say, not my money."
This segment of the TED Radio Hour was produced by Katie Monteleone and James Delahoussaye. It was edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour and Manoush Zomorodi. The digital story was written by Fiona Geiran.
You can follow us on Facebook @TEDRadioHour and email us at TEDRadioHour@npr.org.
Learning to use AI at home might help you survive your life. However, using AI at work might cost you your job in the short and long run
This is what is important about AI. It might steal your job if you use it at work but it might help you survive if you learn to use it at home.
Also, if you own a business, be careful how you use AI because "Who has access to the data it is gathering about you and your business?"
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The Labor Department wants to teach you to use AI more. Here's what we found
Parents of 2-year-old girl who died from fentanyl overdose charged with murder: Full Article
Parents of 2-year-old girl who died from fentanyl overdose charged with murder
The charges come following the toxicology report.
April 16, 2026, 7:03 PM
The parents of a 2-year-old girl who died of a fentanyl overdose in the family's California apartment have been charged with murder, according to the San Francisco district attorney, who alleged the couple showed a "conscious disregard for human life."
The charges come two months after the toddler's death, which the medical examiner ruled to be acute fentanyl toxicity, according to San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
San Francisco police officers responded to her home on the morning of Feb. 12 in response to a 911 call that a child was not breathing, prosecutors said. Medics pronounced the girl dead at the scene and "observed signs of rigor mortis and lividity, indicating the child had been dead for several hours," the district attorney's office said in a press release.
The child's parents -- 38-year-old Michelle Price and her boyfriend, 43-year-old Steve Ramirez -- were both initially charged with felony child endangerment, possession of fentanyl and possession of drug paraphernalia, prosecutors said.
On Wednesday, Jenkins announced that her office filed an amended complaint that additionally charges both parents with second-degree murder and allegations that they willfully caused harm or injury resulting in death to a child.
A judge issued bench warrants for the parents after they failed to show up to court for a hearing on the amended complaint Thursday, court records show.
Price is being represented by a public defender. The San Francisco Public Defender's Office declined to comment on her case at this time. ABC News has reached out to Ramirez's attorney for comment.
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Jenkins said this marks the first homicide case her office has filed in connection with a fatal fentanyl overdose.
"There were drug paraphernalia loosely around this apartment, as well as different amounts of fentanyl loosely sitting out in the open," she said at a press briefing on Wednesday.
Prosecutors said a used Narcan container was observed at the scene and that the toxicology analysis showed naloxone (Narcan), in addition to fentanyl, in the toddler's bloodstream.
Jenkins said the presence and use of Narcan suggested that the parents were aware of the danger of fentanyl and "still allowed their child to have access to that drug."
She said she believes the murder charges are appropriate, saying, "It was clear to me that these parents were aware of its lethality and the danger of fentanyl."
The district attorney said the toxicology report was the "most significant piece of evidence" her office needed before filing the murder charges. The office had also been waiting for the cause of death, she said.
"Our theory will be a conscious disregard for human life -- not that this was obviously an intentional death that occurred or intentional killing, but that they were, again, aware of the dangers that fentanyl posed and still allowed it to be available to this child in a manner that we believe was reckless," Jenkins said.
When officers arrived at the residence on Feb. 12, Ramirez allegedly attempted to flee on a bicycle, resisted arrest and injured an officer while being detained, prosecutors said. Officers found two glass pipes near him and a third in a bag attached to his bike, prosecutors said. He was also charged with an additional count of possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting, obstructing and delaying a peace officer.
"High levels" of fentanyl and methamphetamine were determined to be in the blood of both Price and Ramirez at the time they were arrested, prosecutors said.
"I want to be clear to parents who may be struggling with substance abuse disorder -- first and foremost, we must protect the children in San Francisco, and this is a job that I take extremely seriously," Jenkins said.
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