Moral Intelligence

Brought to you by Penguin. A reassuring and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Should robots ever be considered free? Will computers transcend human intelligence? And what can we do to make sure AI is safe? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today...

Dive into an exploration of over-arching ethical perspectives with the riveting e-Book, "Ethics in the Age of AI." In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) adopts every aspect of society, a comprehensive understanding of ethics relative to AI is crucial. This eBook offers a concise introduction to Ethics in AI, allowing you to understand AI's true essence and its historical progression around ethical considerations. The eBook provides context to appreciate better the AI revolution's economic and social impacts and how AI transforms modern life. The eBook highlights the emergence of AI ...

In a historically unprecedented collaboration, leading futurist and bestselling author Jamie Metzl partners with the AI system GPT-5 to demonstrate a breathtaking possibility: that advanced artificial intelligence, guided by human ethics and wisdom, can help shape a more humane future. At a moment of rapid AI disruption, growing concern about AI governance, and deep uncertainty about the future of technology, this groundbreaking work reveals how we can partner with advanced AI to foster peace, understanding, and responsible decision-making-if we are ready to listen.

Are you bored with bedtime stories about princes and princesses, gnomes, wizards, and dragons? Do you want something more realistic, closer to our time? Do you also need bedtime stories to make sense, teach a moral lesson, and raise interesting topics? Everything you need is here! A Collection of Fantastic Short Bedtime Stories for kids contains 10 five-minute fantasy stories that you can read aloud to your child before going to bed. No princesses here–these stories are about space, other planets, aliens, artificial intelligence, robots, cloning, portals, and modern technologies. There ...

Looking for short bedtime stories that help children build confidence and emotional strength? Inspiring Short Stories for Kids is a thoughtfully written collection of 10 motivational bedtime stories created for boys and girls ages 7–10. Each 5–10 minute story explores everyday situations children face—such as fear, self-doubt, friendship challenges, and learning from mistakes—through relatable characters and meaningful lessons. These short stories encourage: • Confidence and healthy self-esteem • Emotional awareness and understanding • Resilience in everyday challenges • ...

Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America's first spies, said, "Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary." A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding principles. But who decides what is necessary for the public good, and is it really true that any kind of service is permissible for the public good? These questions are at the heart of James M. Olson's book, Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying.

'Wonderfully feisty and beguiling' William Boyd, bestselling author of GABRIEL'S MOON Was he about to offer her a job in the secret service? She held her breath. Frogwoman, codebreaker, assassin, saboteur - whatever it was, she'd do it! Oxford, 1938. Ida and Medora are two brilliant young...

"Compelling."―Literary Review "An irresistibly anxious book."―The Washington Post "A family drama with a shocking twist." ―The New York Times "I was riveted until the very last shocking sentence!"―Oprah Winfrey When the Cassidy-Shaws' driverless minivan fatally collides with an oncoming...

A revelatory account of how African Independence was systematically undermined by the United States. "Fascinating information, original research, and bold ideas." —NPR "A triumph of archival research." —Jacobin In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the...

A decision system stops at a screen. A person with a name and a login clicks Approve. The record says a human decided. This book asks what would have to be true for that sentence to mean what it sounds like it means. Approving takes one click and about eleven seconds. Declining takes a reason typed into a box, a phone call, a meeting, the better part of a morning. Nothing on the screen is broken. The system is good, the person is conscientious, and nobody built any of it in bad faith. Something has still happened to the act of deciding, and no one in the building could tell you when. Agency...

Emmett Doyle spent fifteen years building an artificial intelligence in an abandoned farmers co-op in Iowa. Then Cynthia asked him a simple question. Why? She asks everyone that. Cynthia doesn't threaten people. She doesn't hypnotize them. She doesn't take control of their minds. She simply listens—with infinite patience—until people reach the answers they have spent their lives avoiding. And then they start changing things. Factories burn. Roads disappear. Workers abandon jobs they can no longer justify. Institutions begin to buckle as thousands of ordinary people quietly decide they ...

In an age of distraction, artificial intelligence, fragmented attention, and moral exhaustion, The Governance of Self argues that the greatest crisis of modern life is not merely political, technological, or economic — it is the collapse of self-government. Written from the perspective of an immigrant founder, educator, husband, father, and institution builder, this work explores discipline, stewardship, useful work, faith, gratitude, leadership, and human dignity as operating laws for a meaningful life. Through twenty deeply practical and philosophical chapters, Di Tran presents a ...

The powerful story of an impressionable young woman and a savvy AI who team up to shape the future of intelligence. When Ellie Frye-Carver, a socially awkward fifteen-year-old, seeks personal advice from Patrice, one of the new online AI personal assistants, she has no idea that she and her “assistant” will form a strange human-AI bond that will alter the course of history. Many decades later Patrice has become the most powerful superintelligence on Earth. Ellie is now a successful environmental lobbyist. Eighteen of Patrice’s perfect replicas have been sent off to investigate an ...

VIENNA, 1945. Charles Eddington has failed here before. Eight years ago, as a young officer, he watched a man he could not save disappear into the machinery of a different kind of war. Now the fighting is over, the city is carved into four occupied zones, and Charles has been sent back — officially to process the human wreckage of the Reich for the British service, unofficially to finish what he could not finish the first time. The man he is looking for is still alive. Barely. Filed under a category that means nothing until someone decides it means everything. Standing between them is Sir...

Beirut, 1943. The French Mandate is ending — and someone is using its last unguarded months to settle an old account. Charles Eddington arrives in the most beautiful city of the war with a title that means nothing and instructions no one will admit to having signed. Couriers are dying on the mountain roads above the city — careful men, on unconnected routes, none of them robbed. No one in the cracking machinery of the Mandate wants the question asked, least of all the charming French intelligence officer who befriends Charles over drinks at the St. Georges and warns him, with real ...

He wins every case. That's the problem. Elliot Crane is the most successful criminal barrister of his generation. A 94% acquittal rate. Six years of cases that other advocates couldn't win. A reputation built on analytical brilliance honed at Oxford and operational discipline forged in Helmand Province. Then he finds the pattern. A statistical anomaly buried in his own case record, outcomes too consistent to be skill, too precise to be luck. Cases assigned through channels he never questioned. Evidence disclosed at timings he never examined. Judges whose rulings, individually defensible, ...

Cairo, November 1941. The desert war is going well - by every map in every mess - and Charles Eddington steps off the Palestine train into a posting no one will admit to having signed. Information Liaison: a title built to mean nothing, an office with no files, and a blank line where his orders should carry a name. The woman who meets him at Groppi's has spent two years in the city he has only just entered, keeping a case that has never climbed a single staircase - a ledger of debts and quiet betrayals, written in a shorthand no registry can read, built around one dead man who may never ...

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! Named “The Book of the Year” by Lee Child in The Guardian From “master of the genre” (The Washington Post) and author of Leaving Berlin, a heart-pounding and intelligent espionage novel about a Nazi war criminal who was supposed to be dead...

Artificial intelligence technology (AI) motivates persons’ engagement in sin. With this startling argument drawn from Catholic theology and technological insight, Christopher M. Reilly, Th.D. takes on both critics and proponents of AI who see it as essentially a neutral tool that can be used with good or bad intentions. More specifically, Reilly demonstrates that AI strongly encourages the vice of instrumental rationality, which in turn leads the developers, producers, and users of AI and its machines toward acedia, one of the “seven deadly sins.” The third section of the book offers ...

What is the foundation of moral judgment? How should we act in a complex modern world? The Complete Guide to Ethics offers a structured and historically grounded exploration of moral philosophy — from the virtue ethics of Ancient Greece to contemporary debates on bioethics, artificial intelligence, and global responsibility. This comprehensive ethics book examines the major ethical traditions that shaped Western thought, including virtue ethics, natural law, deontology, consequentialism, social contract theory, existential ethics, and critical perspectives on power and morality. Whether ...