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Phil unit 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is Kate Vredenburgh? | Rising star in AI ethics |
| What's a moral right? | If it's right by you but if you break it, it won't be breaking the law. |
| What is a rule governed hiarchy? | Operates according to certain stable rules |
| What is an involuntary hiarchy? | In some sense the people participating in the hiarcy don't have a choice rather they participate or not. |
| Why do we have this right? | step one: Rights protect important needs step two: If your life is significantly shaped by a rule governed, involuntary hierarchy one of your important needs is informed self advacacy. |
| what is forward looking ability? | The ability to succesfully plan to follow the rules in the future |
| what is backward looking ability? | the ability to defend yourself if someone says you broke the rules or wonged you by breaking the rules themselves |
| what does coercion mean? | to involuntary act during a threat |
| What is an objection? | to be at all powerful, complex hierarchies need complex rules. This means that explanations they provide to ordinary non-expert people will either be: Accurate but too difficult to understand, or Simplified so much that they’re no longer accurate and |
| What is informed self advocoacy? | Conform future decisions to the rules, and Evaluate past actions in terms of the rules |
| Melanie Mitchell | Professor at the Santa Fe Institute Researcher on artificial intelligence and complexity: a computer scientist, not an ethicist |
| The Dartmouth Conference | 1956 gathering of ten researchers interested in capturing the process involved in human thought on machines No clear definition for “intelligence” |
| “anarchy of methods”: | some more interested in theoretical knowledge about the workings of the human mind, some more interested in practical applications |
| Symbolic AI: | a system whose knowledge consists of symbols (usually words or phrases), along with pre-selected rules that tell the system how to combine and process those symbols. |
| Subsymbolic AI: | What are the rules that this system follows? They’re not encoded in symbols; the system figures rules of its own through a learning process. it's made to work like a human brain |