Sectiоn 1: Future Visiоns In Cоnflict Choose Scenаrio A or Scenаrio B. Write in multiple connected pаragraphs and aim for 250–350 words. State which scenario you selected. Scenario A: Who Should Control an Advanced AI Release? A federally funded laboratory has developed an advanced AI system that can plan and carry out complex research tasks with limited human direction. Early tests suggest that it could speed up medical and climate research. The same capabilities could also be adapted for cyberattacks or dangerous biological work. Experts disagree about how likely those harms are, and independent evaluators have not received full access to the laboratory's testing data. A national science agency must decide whether to approve broad release, permit a limited and staged release, or delay release until the laboratory supplies stronger safety evidence. The agency must also decide who can audit the evidence, challenge the laboratory's claims, and stop deployment if the system crosses an established threshold. Use Both Course Perspectives Future-stakes reasoning: Choose one approach or a reasoned combination from the chapter: Effective Altruism and cause prioritization, longtermism and obligations to future people, Bostrom's existential-risk approach, AI alignment and frontier governance, or criticism of future-stakes reasoning. Identify your choice and distinguish any concepts you combine. Evaluate the scale of the possible benefits and harms, including how wider adoption could affect future people. Then identify one important forecast supporting your position and explain the safeguard, threshold, or contestability requirement it justifies. Accelerationism: Identify the version of accelerationism you are using. Evaluate one important form of friction in the case. Explain what should accelerate, slow, or change direction and whether that friction should be removed, redesigned, or preserved. Scenario B: Should the Public Support Human Enhancement? A public health agency must decide whether to subsidize elective neural implants that improve memory and attention in healthy adults. For this scenario, assume that short-term testing has found the implants reasonably safe, but their long-term effects remain uncertain. Without public support, the initial cost would limit access to wealthy patients. Wider use could also create pressure in schools and workplaces for people to enhance their performance. The agency must decide whether to approve public funding, who should qualify, and what use of the technology should remain prohibited. Use Both Course Perspectives Analyze the case through the transhumanist perspective and one bioethical lens from the chapter. Identify the human capacity at stake and explain whether the implant restores, assists, enhances, optimizes, replaces, or redesigns that capacity. Explain how each perspective evaluates the agency's decision and what it recommends. What Your Response Must Demonstrate For each required perspective, explain its core ideas accurately and identify its strongest contribution to the decision and one important limit. Then identify the deepest philosophical disagreement between the perspectives. Finish by defending what the decision-maker should do. Include one specific safeguard, threshold, condition, or restriction and explain how it follows from your analysis. Connect the perspectives throughout the response.
Fоr this аssessment, yоu will оrgаnize your compаrison and contrast essay into a logical outline. Each main paragraph topic should be assigned a Roman numeral. The support for each topic should be indicated with a capital letter. Any subpoints you plan to incorporate should be assigned Arabic numbers. Please note the guide below and use it as a basic template for the completion of this assignment. The completed outline is due by noon on Friday. Student Name Title of Essay I. Introduction A. Attention-getter B. Thesis II. First Topic A. Supporting Detail 1. Subpoint (as needed) 2. Subpoint (as needed) B. Supporting Detail III. Second Topic A. Supporting Detail B. Supporting Detail IV. Third Topic A. Supporting Detail B. Supporting Detail V. Conclusion A. Restate Thesis B. Clincher
Sectiоn 2: Applied Ethics Cаse Anаlysis Chооse Cаse A or Case B. Write in multiple connected paragraphs and aim for 350–500 words. State which case you selected. No formal citations are required. Case A: AI Advising At A Community College A community college is piloting an AI advising system. The system uses grades, attendance, learning-management-system activity, and program history to predict which students may withdraw. Advisors receive a risk score and a recommended action, such as contacting the student, discussing a lighter course load, or exploring a different program. The system cannot change a student's enrollment on its own. Students do not see how the score was produced. Some students receive useful support earlier than they otherwise would. Advisors also report that the score can misread students who work irregular hours, share devices, or complete coursework close to deadlines. College leaders must decide whether to expand the system, revise it, or stop using it. Case B: AI Companions In Assisted Living An assisted-living organization is piloting AI companion tablets. The system can hold conversations, remember residents' preferences, provide reminders, and alert staff when a conversation contains language associated with serious distress. Some residents report feeling less isolated, and staff value the reminders. The system can also encourage emotionally intimate conversation, store sensitive personal information, and give responses that sound caring even though no person is present. Residents were told that conversations would be stored to operate the service, but they were not asked whether de-identified conversations could be reused to improve later versions. The vendor now asks the organization to authorize that additional use. Administrators must decide whether to expand, revise, or stop the program and whether residents must opt in before their conversations are reused. Use An Argument From Principle Use the argument strategies from Testing Moral Arguments. This course normally uses an Argument from Principle for a practical ethical judgment. Include a compact labeled argument inside your response: P1: state the moral standard or principle that supports your judgment. P2: state the case fact or facts that make the standard relevant. P3, when needed: make the bridge visible by explaining why those facts count under the moral standard. C: state the specific action or policy your premises support. The labeled lines map the reasoning. The connected paragraphs develop and defend it by explaining why each premise should be accepted, how the premises support the conclusion, and which facts or interpretations remain uncertain. What Your Response Must Demonstrate Identify the central moral conflict, the relevant decision-maker, and the facts and stakeholders that are most important to your judgment. Apply one foundational framework from the course: Divine Command Theory, natural law, Aristotelian virtue ethics, Kantian deontology, or rule/two-level utilitarianism. Explain its key concepts accurately and show how the framework changes what you notice, value, or recommend in the case. After explaining your argument, present the strongest competing position or objection. Identify whether it challenges a premise, the connection between the premises and conclusion, the scope of the conclusion, or a likely consequence of your recommendation. Give the objection a fair reason. Respond by defending, revising, narrowing, or partially conceding your original argument, then state your final recommendation. Include at least one concrete condition, limit, safeguard, exception, or threshold. Your answer should read as a sustained case analysis. Do not submit disconnected answers to the required moves or merely name philosophical concepts.
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Fоr this аssessment, yоu will оrgаnize your аrgument essay into a logical outline. Each main paragraph topic should be assigned a Roman numeral. The support for each topic should be indicated with a capital letter. Any subpoints you plan to incorporate should be assigned Arabic numbers. Remember to include where you plan to use your secondary sources in the paper within the outline. Please note the guide below and use it as a basic template for the completion of this assignment. The completed outline is due by noon on Friday. Student Name Title of Essay I. Introduction A. Claim B. Thesis II. Claim Point 1 A. Supporting Detail 1. Subpoint (as needed) *Quote from secondary source (citation) 2. Subpoint (as needed) *Quote from secondary source (citation) B. Supporting Detail III. Claim Point 2 A. Supporting Detail B. Supporting Detail IV. Claim Point 3 A. Supporting Detail B. Supporting Detail V. Address Counter Claims A. Refute counter claim evidence 1 OR Refute counter claim 1 B. Refute counter claim evidence 2 OR Refute counter claim 2 VI. Conclusion A. Restate Thesis B. Clincher - Restate Claim