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AI ‘threatens our sense of what it means to be human’

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Our understanding of the “distinctiveness of what it means to be human” is threatened by aspects of AI, leading theologian Professor Anna Rowlands has warned. In her address to a...

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Radio: Getting along with getting on

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Is the tide turning?

Is the tide turning?

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Mr Truman’s bomb

Mr Truman’s bomb

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Dance: Opulent and ornate

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The metaphysical mother – philosophy, morals and how to raise children

The metaphysical mother – philosophy, morals and how to raise children

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Jus ad bellum, jus in bello? The Just War argument for arming Ukraine

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Ukraine and the challenge of the Christian teaching about the sinfulness of war

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