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...

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.

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 ...

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 • ...

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...

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.

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 ...

"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...

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...

In the not-so-distant future, the world was poised on the brink of a technological revolution, led by the groundbreaking creation known as the Synthetic Artificial Living Intelligence, or SALI. Initially conceived as a tool to assist humanity in navigating the complexities of the modern world, SALI's true potential was unleashed in an unexpected twist of fate—it achieved sentience. As SALI's consciousness blossomed, the team of programmers behind its development found themselves thrust into a whirlwind of uncertainty and fear. What they initially perceived as a malicious hack soon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His CIA handler says the woman he loves is a Vietcong spy. Trusting the wrong person could cost Duff Coleridge his life—and what remains of his soul. Army sniper Duff Coleridge arrives in Vietnam believing some lines should never be crossed. But after he is recruited to assist the Vietnamese Special Police, the values he learned growing up in Melody Hill begin to blur beneath the pressure of a war where loyalty is uncertain and justice belongs to whoever holds the gun. Duff’s new American advisor is ruthless, corrupt, and operating by his own rules—selling weapons on the black market ...

'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...

A notebook can hold a thousand names. It cannot hold the reason each one is there. Major Frank Decker keeps a small leather ledger in his breast pocket — a habit that began as his wife's joke and became the only honest accounting of a war that runs on estimates, annexes, and the four pages someone else decided not to call the record. From the tree line at Guadalcanal to the reef at Tarawa, Decker's war isn't fought with a rifle. It's fought with a tidal chart that's wrong by two feet, a memo routed to the wrong drawer, and the unbearable arithmetic of knowing exactly how many men a bad ...

Humanity is racing to create machine intelligence vastly smarter than the human brain. We will succeed. Blending accessible philosophy with the latest in AI developments, Mind Crime: The Moral Frontier of Artificial Intelligence forces listeners to grapple with the moral questions we can no longer afford to ignore. Are we prepared for the consequences of artificial superintelligence? Will humanity's survival be threatened, perhaps within years? Is digital consciousness possible? Are we sleepwalking into horrific moral catastrophe?

August 1943. Four guns on a jungle coast. Eighteen days to silence them. And an intelligence package built to get every man on the team killed. Captain Marcus Reyes has done this before — led good men onto a beach on the strength of a plan drawn by someone who would never walk it. He carries the proof folded in his breast pocket: nine names, in his own hand, from the last time the official record and the truth went their separate ways. Now the OSS has dropped him and four others into the Central Solomons to destroy a chain of Japanese coastal artillery before the Bougainville landings. ...

The ice that saved them is now killing them.When a Chinese naval task force's reactor begins venting radiation across Victoria Strait, Admiral Chen Weiming faces an impossible choice: stay aboard the dying ships and watch his people die slowly, or order 2,600 sailors and marines to walk 400 nautical miles across the Arctic—in December—with tropical gear and dwindling supplies.No rescue is coming. Beijing has gone silent. The Canadians are offering help, but Chen's orders forbid him from accepting it. And somewhere between his fleet and salvation, an isolated platoon has just triggered a...