Developmental Ethics

TUT 100 - Virtue in Animal and Machine - Professor Weinman

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 (3-5 sentences) 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 (3-5 sentences) explain your choice (in comparison to at least one other limitation/challenge).
3. In your own words, briefly (3-5 sentences) frame Guarini's (2006) response to these questions from our earlier list of "Questions for Reading a Paper":

   What approaches have [previously] been taken to answer the question? What are the limitations of these solutions or approaches?
4. Wallach and Allen say

   Insofar as the current understanding of the conditions in which human morality evolved is very poor, this [Alife] process is likely to be very sensitive to features beyond humans' control. (p. 104).

   Select the sentence from Guarini's article that you feel is most closely related. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain whether your choice supports, denies, or complicates the assertion from Moral Machines.