Director / Editor: Victor Teboul, Ph.D.

Looking inside ourselves and out at the world
Independent and neutral with regard to all political and religious orientations, Tolerance.ca® aims to promote awareness of the major democratic principles on which tolerance is based.

If robots could lie, would we be okay with it? A new study throws up intriguing results

By Stine S. Johansen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology

Do you think a robot should be allowed to lie? A new study published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI investigates what people think of robots that deceive their users.

Their research uses examples of robots lying to people to find out if some lies are acceptable – and how people might justify them.

Social norms say it can be okay for people to lie, if it protects…

Read complete article

~	UK public is becoming more ‘carbon capable’ – here’s what that means

~	The Trump-Harris debate shows how personality can reveal itself in language

~	Kyrgyz Police Go Unpunished for Failing to Protect Women

~	Protect future generations from global decisions made today

~	Chroming, choking and skull-breaking – social media challenges can come with deadly consequences

~	Research nation: whisper it, Europe still sometimes looks to the UK

~	Trump’s abortion flip-flops: Lessons from Ireland on why reasons-based access to abortion doesn’t work

~	In Lebanon, foreign investment soars despite ongoing challenges

~	Getting shorter and going hungrier: how children in the UK live today

~	Marine art deepens our understanding of the oceans – here’s how it has evolved through the centuries