I recommend these online articles and blogs as places to learn about the topics we are studying in the class Evangelism and Vocation in a Post-Singularity World.

Automation and Robotics in Education

• Classroom robots – China’s educational gambit poses questions for the West, Cath Everett at diginomica.com
• How robots are teaching Singapore’s kids, Jeevan Vasagar at the Financial Times
• Robots likely to be used in classrooms as learning tools, not teachers, TheConversation.com
• Robots in Education: What’s Here and What’s Coming, Kristen Hicks at Edudemic: Connecting Education & Technology
• Teach Me: Automation and Education, Nick Ostdick at UiPath/blog
• The Use of Robotics and Simulators in the Education Environment, Purdue University Online

Economic Implications of Accelerating Technological Development and Automation

• A.I. Will Transform the Economy. But How Much, and How Soon? Steve Lohr, New York Times
• Why Universal Basic Income Won’t Work – Kacy Qua at Medium.com
• Is the Singularity Steering us Toward the Greatest Inequality in History? Jared Leidich at Singularity Weblog
• 3 of the world’s 10 largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots, Oscar Williams-Grut, Business Insider
• Your Future – Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Automation, Kev Cooke, DisruptionHub.com
• What the Industrial Revolution really tells us about the future of automation and work, Moshe Y. Vardi, The Conversation: Academic rigor, journalistic flair (https://theconversation.com)

Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

• Teaching A.I. Systems to Behave Themselves – Cade Metz at the New York Times
• Top 9 ethical issues in artificial intelligence, Julia Bossman, World Economic Forum (https://www.weforum.org)
• Guidelines for Ethical Robot Design, Automated Magazine (a production of EU Automation)

Faith and the Implications of Artificial Intelligence

• Is AI a threat to Christianity – Jonathan Merritt at The Atlantic
• Can a Robot Join the Faith? – Avi Steinberg at The New Yorker
• The Theology of Artificial Intelligence – Jason Butler at Cinema Faith, a look at the implications of artificial intelligence and robotics for what it means to be human
• Guidelines for Ethical Robot Design, Automated Magazine (a production of EU Automation)

Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence

• The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence – Wait, but Why? Website
• AI Startup Embodied Intelligence Wants Robots to Learn From Humans in Virtual Reality – Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org)
• AlphaGo Zero Goes From Rank Beginner to Grandmaster in Three Days—Without Any Help – Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org)
• Artificial Intelligence Predicts Outcomes of Chemical Reactions – Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org)
• Building A.I. That Can Build A.I. – New York Times
• DARPA [is] Seeking AI That Learns All the Time – Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org)
• The Deep Mind blog contains a wealth of information about the project’s ongoing work in A.I.
• Google Sells A.I. for Building A.I. (Novices Welcome) – Cade Metz at the New York Times
• Job One for Quantum Computers: Boost Artificial Intelligence, George Musser, Quanta Magazine
• The self-driving car is here – in 2017 – Enrique Dans

Should we be afraid?

• AI Could Revolutionize War as much as Nukes, Tom Simonite, Wired Magazine
• Artificial Intelligence’s ‘Black Box’ Is Nothing to Fear – Jijah Pande, New York Times
• Beware The Robots, Says Hawking – Forbes Magazine
• How to Make A.I. That’s Good for People, Fei-Fei Li, New York Times.
• Why You Should Fear ‘Slaughterbots’—A Response -Stuart Russell, Anthony Aguirre, Ariel Conn, and Max Tegmark at Spectrum IEEE

Technological Singularity

• Wikipedia.org has a helpful article on the Technological Singularity that can give you a good overview of the topic.