Dangers, Rights, and Responsibilities

TUT 100 - Virtue in Animal and Machine - Professor Weinman



Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.
  1. Wallach an Allen pose several questions throughout the chapter. Identify (that is, quote and cite) the question you believe should be answered first. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain your selection.
    (Note: this is not asking which question is most important to answer period. It is also not asking which question could be answered first. Rather, which question should we strive to answer first, perhaps at the cost of all others.)
  2. Identify the sentence or short passage from the chapter that you feel is most closely related to Searle's Chinese room argument (first raised in Chapter 4). Briefly explain whether your choice supports, denies, or complicates Searle's position.
  3. Select the sentence from today's reading that you feel makes the makes the best distinction between accountability and responsibility. Briefly explain the importance of this distinction.
  4. Choose an entry from the Moral Machines blog and a sentence or short passage from the chapter that you feel is most closely related to the entry. Briefly (3-5 sentence) explain your selections.