In “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” an enormously influential article published in 1972, the philosopher Peter Singer posed the following hypothetical: You are walking by a shallow pond and see a ...

This is the argument that we ought to save the lives of strangers when we can do so at relatively little cost to ourselves. Australian philosopher Peter Singer says that where world poverty is ...

The world must create a system in which humans bear moral responsibility for the deployment of increasingly intelligent and autonomous weapons based on artificial intelligence, a U.S. national ...