Developmental Ethics

TUT 100 - Virtue in Animal and Machine - Professor Weinman



Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.
  1. Select the sentence from today's reading by Wallach and Allen that you feel makes the best distinction between Alife (or evolutionary algorithms) and learning machines. Briefly explain your choice.
  2. Chapter 7 mentions several limitations and challenges for both evolutionary and learning-based approaches to building AMAs. Identify the one you find most problematic. Briefly explain your choice (in comparison to at least two other limitations/challenges).
  3. Select the sentence from the reading by Harms that you feel best summarizes the motivating question or problem of the paper. Briefly explain your choice.
  4. In your own words, briefly frame William Harm's response to these questions from our "Questions for Reading a Paper" handout.
    What approaches have [previously] been taken to answer the question? What are the limitations of these solutions or approaches?
  5. Wallach and Allen say the "conditions in which human morality evolved is ... likely to be very sensitive to features beyond humans' control" (p. 104). Select the sentence from Harms' article that you feel is most closely related. Briefly explain whether your choice supports, denies, or complicates the assertion from Moral Machines.