Sentences with phrase «decisions over human beings»

While the issue of killer robots is now firmly on the international agenda, where it goes from here depends on whether governments are willing to develop and articulate sound national policies that prevent their militaries from ceding the right to make life and death decisions over human beings to machines.

Not exact matches

Poloz has a free hand, but he's human; if you were facing a decision that could go either way, and you knew the person who is ultimately your boss favours one direction over the other, what would you do?

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder among 374 HR professionals (employed full - time, work in Human Resources and use, have primary or shared decision - making about the Human Resource system at their company) and 319 job seekers (unemployed, employed full - time or part - time and have applied for a job in the past six months) ages 18 and over between June 2 and June 25, 2014 (percentages for some questions are based on a subset, based on their responses to certain questions).

The value of human dignity, which takes precedence over all political action and all political decision - making, refers to the Creator: Only He can establish values that are grounded in the essence of humankind and are inviolable.

The Christian people suspect, and not always without reason, that because the Church's human law must be established by the authorities it is actually subject to the arbitrariness of the ministry and hence not really a law that would give the people a well - established position over against the decisions of the Pope or the entire episcopate.

We want to know why things happen the way they do, but what we're really asking is, «God, explain to me how you simultaneously see all of human history at once, are guiding it to a redemptive conclusion, while at the same time loving each person individually, yet allowing them legitimate control over their day - to - day decisions.»

At least Lenin, a very conscious heir of the Jacobins, had some sense of the gravity of the decision by human beings to take over the sovereignty that had belonged to God.

And where else but in the agonized decision over abortion are women given a unique opportunity to face the frailty and finitude of human life?

This question has been the topic of considerable legal and social debate over the years since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision» debate that has only been intensified by the recent controversies over human embryonic stem cells and human....

Human freedom requires not only that the decision be identified as the person's own reality but that the decision have a free range over significant options.

Such a society will ensure that satisfaction of human needs takes immediate priority over the satisfaction of anyone's desires, and that the dignity of each individual is honored by providing opportunity for all persons to participate responsibly in decisions which will affect their individual lives and the common good.

In keeping with the authoritative tradition within Catholicism, it is the Bishops who hold final decision - making power over the direction of the Campaign, which they exercise in the first instance through the CCHD Subcommittee of their own Committtee on Domesitc Justice and Human Development, made up entirely of bishops.

I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?

You suddenly become entirely responsible for another human being, and every decision you make can affect their well - being so, in many ways, it can be over...

Delivering the Judgment, the Human Rights Court presided over by Justice of the Court of Appeal sitting with additional responsibility as a High Court Judge, Justice Anthony Yeboah held that the decision by the Fire Service was discriminatory and a breach of the fundamental Human Rights of the two applicants in the matter.

As the world is becoming more international in its relations, that is an increasingly less realistic goal, even though it can not be denied that the idea carries a lot of appeal to modern humans as their behavior and decision - making has evolved in tribal contexts over most of their biological existence.

During his time at the Pride Agenda he has been actively involved with the passage of dozens of laws, ordinances, regulations and Executive Orders on the state and local level affecting New York's LGBT community, including statewide measures like: the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act; the Hate Crimes Act of 2000; making the state's 9/11 relief inclusive of same - sex couples; guaranteeing domestic partners hospital visitation, legal authority over a loved one's bodily remains, access to Family Court and medical decision making authority; prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in state employment; and securing over $ 50 million of funding for LGBT health and human services.

While pointing out that she was passed over to lead the Human Services and Education Committee last year, Harrington said her decision to raise the issue publicly was not personal.

If anything, over millions of years of human evolution, «smart» intuitive heuristics that guide our decision making have helped us get to where we are today.

At Politico's 2011 Energy Forum, Holmstead was confronted over his obstruction of clean air rules and the human lives lost resulting from his decisions to delay effective mercury pollution controls at U.S. power plants:

If there is something a machine can't make a decision on, it gets kicked over to human moderators.

Over time, they met other teachers who were also interested in ensuring that students from low - income families have the most effective teachers possible, and in February 2011, two of them took personal days from school to travel to the state capitol and provide testimony against seniority - based human resource decisions.

Your geographic circumstance is certainly concerning as far as supplies go, but making the decision to feed your dogs human grade food as compared to pet grade food (as goes into nearly all dry and canned dog and cat foods) will likely reduce exposure to toxins and carcinogens over the years.

The January 6 decision is almost certainly the final battle in the fight between the Unreal Engine maker and the studio behind Too Human, which began in 2007 when the developers sought $ 58 million in damages over allegations Epic had failed to provide adequate support.

re 106: «But the free market (at least if external costs are accounted for) is control by the aggregate of human decisions over policy.»

But the free market (at least if external costs are accounted for) is control by the aggregate of human decisions over policy.

But why focus on a global mean that is known to have only a sluggish relationship to real human stress — especially over the sub-decadal time periods that are relevant to most human decision - making — rather than other indicators that are more tightly coupled and better canaries?

Roger A. Pielke, Jr., the always provocative University of Colorado political scientist, proposes that scientists who have concluded that humans are crossing perilous «planetary boundaries» are expecting too much influence over societal decisions related to energy and ressource use:

Paul Voosen, who's one of my favorite science journalists these days, has written a fine piece examining the scientific and societal debate over the Anthropocene, the proposed term for this era in which human decisions (or indecision) will leave a durable mark in planetary systems and even in the planet's stratified rock.

My response - Physics is really telling us little about how the system will act over timescales important to humans making policy decisions.

At Politico's 2011 Energy Forum, Holmstead was confronted over his obstruction of clean air rules and the human lives lost resulting from his decisions to delay effective mercury pollution controls at U.S. power plants:

The model will be used to predict both the monthly and the cumulative effects of human activity in the region - all agriculture, transportation, energy, and industry - related decisions - over the next 20 years.

The «Humans vs Robots» report, based on responses from 1,000 board level and senior decision makers and over 1,000 workers in 13 sectors across the UK, reveals the potential impact robotics and AI will have on the workplace.

Lord Phillips, the former President of the Supreme Court, Lord Woolf, Lord Steyn, Lord Walker, and Sir Nicholas Bratza, the former president of the European Court of Human Rights, as well as more than 100 QCs, were among those criticising the government's decision to take in only 20,000 refugees over a five - year period.

It's worth noting that the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms appears to go even farther than the ECHR decision: the Aubry decision (http://csc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1998/1998rcs1-591/1998rcs1-591.html) granted a right of privacy (under s5 of the Quebec Charter) which extended over the use of photographs without consent even when the photograph was taken in a public place.

Translation may be performed by people (human translation) or computers (machine translation), and the decision to use one method over the other involves balancing accuracy and cost.

The approach in Johnstone (and the companion case of CNR v. Seeley and Canadian Human Rights Commission, released the day after the Johnstone decision) is the latest development in the continuing debate over the extent of the duty to accommodate employee childcare obligations.

The brief supported the plaintiffs in the case, members of Jara's family, explaining that a U.S. court's decision to accept jurisdiction over plaintiffs» claims would be consistent with the Republic of Chile's goals of justice and accountability for human rights abuses committed during the Pinochet regime.

Langdon & Emison represented the plaintiff in Baker v. General Motors, a landmark lawsuit resulting in a unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, where for the first time evidence was admitted into court proving an automaker's deliberate choice of profits over human safety.

The continuing jurisdiction of human rights tribunals generally was recently illustrated by a decision of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario in Trozzi v. College of Nurses of Ontario, 2010 HRTO 1892 to retain jurisdiction over a complaint despite a human rights violation being dismissed by the Ontario Health Profession Appeal and Review Board («HPARB&raqhuman rights tribunals generally was recently illustrated by a decision of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario in Trozzi v. College of Nurses of Ontario, 2010 HRTO 1892 to retain jurisdiction over a complaint despite a human rights violation being dismissed by the Ontario Health Profession Appeal and Review Board («HPARB&raqHuman Rights Tribunal of Ontario in Trozzi v. College of Nurses of Ontario, 2010 HRTO 1892 to retain jurisdiction over a complaint despite a human rights violation being dismissed by the Ontario Health Profession Appeal and Review Board («HPARB&raqhuman rights violation being dismissed by the Ontario Health Profession Appeal and Review Board («HPARB»).

Heffernan's book gives many examples and references in describing willful blindness as a psychological phenomenon by which human beings, through a series of small decisions made over a period of time, unconsciously choose to perceive a reality that preserves their own interests.

He has co-opted onto his commission studying the subject some of those who argue that a British Bill of Rights would be given such a fair wind by the European Court of Human Rights» judges that it would achieve precedence over their own decisions.

She waited 19 years to be compensated over gender discrimination by her employer in an Alberta Human Rights Tribunal decision rendered on September 2, 2010.

While the capabilities of future technology are uncertain, there are strong reasons to believe that devolving more decision making over targeting to weapons systems themselves will erode the fundamental obligation that rules of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law be applied by people, and with sufficient specificity to make them meaningful.

Several highlighted the key ethical concern of whether it is right for humans to cede the decision to target and use force over to machines.

In May 2013, Germany's Minister of Foreign Affairs Guido Westerwelle told Die Weit that he shares the concern over autonomous weapons, stating, «I don't want a situation where human decision - making is removed and delegated to machines.»

Survey Methodology This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com among 252 human resources professionals (employed full - time as a human resources representative; not self - employed; with at least significant involvement in hiring decisions; non government); and 8,038 U.S. employees (employed full - time; not self - employed; non government) ages 18 and over between November 12 and December 1, 2008 (percentages for some questions are based on a subset U.S. employers or employees, based on their responses to certain questions).

[37] Agreements offer an opportunity to return decision - making power over group membership to Indigenous people, and are consistent with the human rights principle of self - identification for Indigenous people outlined above.

The Dual Process Theory (DPT) was developed and researched over many years and asserts that the human brain operates with two different decision - making systems: the «Doer» and the «Thinker»: The Doer — fast, intuitive, emotional, subconscious -LSB-...]... Read more