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A short criticism on Kurzweil’s ‘The Singularity is Near’
Kurzweil’s paper discusses the notion of singularity. A notion which in fact is not initially used by the author, but was previously used in this context by John von Neumann. Nonetheless Kurzweil develops this notion and ‘brings it down to earth’ by stating that it should occur with few decades. His interpretation probably shocked many ...
A short analysis and elaboration of Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Considering the fact that this paper was written in 1950, a time in which there was no common knowledge about computers and their capabilities at all, furthermore whilst considering the fact that computer engineering those days was an experimental field with only a few very restricted prototypes that were able to conduct merely few calculation ...
Moor – why we need better ethics for emerging technology.
Moor draws in his paper a portrait of a tripartite model of a technological revolution. He states that every significant technological revolution consists of these three phases: The first, is the introduction stage, that is a semi-experimental phase of its new implementations, few prototypes that prove the utility of the paradigmatic framework are released to ...
Jonas – Technology and Responsibility, A short analysis and criticism
Jonas opens the paper with a citation from Sophocles’s Antigone. The chorus sings an ‘awestruck homage’ to humanachievements and dominance. The man is able to control reckless wild animals, to take his own fate in his hands except for his own mortality. He has built cities in which he sets up his own rules to ...
Responsibility of crashes of autonomous vehicles
The authors address the ethical aspect of liability assignment in the case of the incoming emergence of autonomous vehicles. They raise the problematic implication of the intuitive tendency to assign the liability solely on the manufacture. They justifiably argue that this may lead to a fatal decrease of the manufacture incentive to enhance its product ...
A short analysis and criticism on Procreative Beneficence
Savulescu is addressing a contemporary relevant ethical debate that concerns the current achievement in the field of genetic medicine of productivity. The author specifies two types of medical implementation that the ethical debate. The first is the ability to produce an extrauterine fertilization, commonly known as Vitro Fertilization (IVF), and the second is the ability ...