Content on Technology
AI and Honesty
Even as technology makes it increasingly tempting to be dishonest, how can we create and preserve a more honest society?
The Kavod of AI
As AI becomes more embedded in daily life, a deeper question emerges: how do we use these tools without losing our humanity?
Outsourcing Humanity: Ancient Insight for the Age of AI
What does artificial intelligence mean for our own sense of humanity?
A Pro-Human Declaration
A wide assortment of people have signed a declaration in favor of centering humanity. Rabbi Mitelman was among them.
The Urim and Thummim vs. A.I. Predictions
The question with AI forecasting tools is: Who is carrying these tools close to their heart, as Aaron did?
From Sinai to Silicon: Jewish Ethics and the Future of AI
Amidst the “silicon orchards” of data centers and artificial intelligence, how do we ensure that as our world gets smarter, our lives do not become less sacred?
The Three Poisons and Polarization
We take, necessarily, a filtered view of the world—one that, if you look closely, may have a flavor of one of Buddhism’s three poisons: greed, hatred or delusion.
At the Gates: Introducing a Special CCAR Journal Issue on Judaism and AI
Jewish sources can help us guide us through the fog of uncertainty around AI, since the questions we are struggling with are ancient ones.
A Gathering of Purpose in Tuscany and the Vatican
In Tuscany and Rome, I realized humanity is asking not “Why are we here?” but “What do we do while we are here?”
Jacob, AI, and the Ethics of Relationships
Language – and communication as a whole – isn’t simply there to impart information. It also exists to build relationships.
Judaism is a Speedrun
What do online communities that deconstruct, reconstruct and iterate on media have in common with the communal practices of rabbinic Judaism?
Heschel and the Cultivation of Character in a Technological Age
Many 20th-century technologies sparked ethical debates like those that rage today – and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was a prominent Jewish voice.