A review of Robert Boyers' "The Tyranny Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and Hunt for Political Heresies."

With artificial intelligence systems increasingly applied in consequential domains, researchers have begun to ask how AI ought act ethically charged situations where even humans lack consensus. In the Moral Machine project, crowdsourced answers "Trolley Problems" concerning autonomous vehicles. Subsequently, Noothigattu et al. (2018) proposed inferring linear functions that approximate each ind...

The application and interpretation of the impact factor of a journal is fraught with problems, some of which are explored in this editorial.