Godfather of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Warns of Dangers

Godfather of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Warns of Dangers

At the beginning of May 2023, Geoffrey Hinton, often portrayed as the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI), quit his job and warned about the developments in that technology, writes Columban missionary, Fr Seán McDonagh. His pioneering work and research on neural...
Facebook’s Annus Horribilis

Facebook’s Annus Horribilis

Criticism of Facebook intensified in 2021. Fr Seán McDonagh looks at former employee Frances Haugen’s allegations that Facebook put “astronomical profits before people”.  In my book, Robots, Ethics and the Future of Jobs, I described how in 2016, at the time of the US...
How Life Has Changed

How Life Has Changed

I had just arrived in the Philippines shortly after ordination. It was 1973 and something unprecedented was happening back home in Ireland. Limerick had made it to the All-Ireland hurling final! Desperate to find out news of how the match went I got my shortwave...