In the concept of social decision-making, vague commitments of a normative and political nature are translated into specific commitments to one or more specific courses of action. Since decision-making includes an element of choice, it is the most deliberate and voluntaristic aspect of social...

Three kinds of people call for the regulation of artificial intelligence:A) Those who believe that robots will come to dominate us. We show that these concerns are too speculative to slow down a field that saves many lives, for instances of driving. B) Those who fear that autonomous weapons will...

Behavioural economics provides unusually robust data that show that people have hardwired, systematic cognitive biases that greatly limit their intellectual capabilities. From these observations follows a set of general guidelines for decision-making -- humble decision-making theory -- that if...