Sean Welsh

Sean Welsh is co-author of An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI and author of Ethics and Security Automata. He works as a digital transformation consultant in Brisbane.

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Getting Better All the Time

Hannah Ritchie’s new book offers reasons to be cheerful about the present and the future.

Sean Welsh

15 Feb 2024 · 12 min read

To Accelerate or Decelerate AI: That is the Question

Explaining the “accel/decel” split at the heart of the OpenAI power struggle.

Sean Welsh / Michael Timothy Bennett

18 Dec 2023 · 12 min read

What Lies Beneath

In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises.

Sean Welsh

23 Jun 2023 · 13 min read

ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions

Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them.

Sean Welsh

26 Jan 2023 · 12 min read

Troll Exposure

Sean Welsh

8 Dec 2021 · 10 min read

Why Australia Opted for AUKUS

While Reuters reports that the French had ample warning the project was in trouble, the AUKUS announcement and the cancellation of the submarine contract nevertheless took them by surprise.

Sean Welsh

2 Oct 2021 · 10 min read

The White of the AI

The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic.

Sean Welsh

23 Apr 2021 · 9 min read

Standing on the Shoulders of Ogres

The aim of antenatal screening is to discourage the birth of people with severe disabilities.

Sean Welsh

16 Mar 2021 · 10 min read

COVID-19 Returns to New Zealand

The outbreak has dented the exemplary record of the New Zealand government in dealing with COVID-19.

Sean Welsh

27 Aug 2020 · 9 min read

How New Zealand Is Beating COVID-19

At the time of writing, New Zealand had reported just three new cases of COVID-19 in nine days.

Sean Welsh

22 May 2020 · 8 min read

The Case for a Mandatory COVID-19 App

Given a choice between closing the mall to everyone or opening it and refusing entry to a few with an alert on their app, which is better?

Sean Welsh

7 May 2020 · 8 min read

Lies, Damned Lies, and STEM Statistics

Concerns about the number of women in STEM are misplaced for three reasons.

Sean Welsh

2 Mar 2019 · 11 min read

Brotopia—Analysis and Review

Chang shows no awareness that gender parity is the exception not the rule in the US workplace.

Sean Welsh

12 Oct 2018 · 12 min read

In Defence of Combat Robots

Human weaknesses in combat are well-documented and largely consistent. Technology, by contrast, improves with every passing week.

Sean Welsh

23 Aug 2018 · 11 min read