Sentences with phrase «ethical debate so»

They also touched off the most serious moral and ethical debate so far over both embryonic stem cell research and human cloning.

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Prof. Gordon Pipa, a senior author of the study, says that since it now seems to be possible that machines can be programmed to make human like moral decisions it is crucial that society engages in an urgent and serious debate, «we need to ask whether autonomous systems should adopt moral judgements, if yes, should they imitate moral behavior by imitating human decisions, should they behave along ethical theories and if so, which ones and critically, if things go wrong who or what is at fault?»

The basic premise about trying to add emotional capabilities into computers so they can become more advanced than human life provides some interesting debate regarding the ethical ramifications of trying to play God.

Marvel's Black Panther is the sort of superhero film where the differences between the motivations of the hero and those of the villain are so subtle it calls for ethical pondering and debate.

For an A-level, I expect students to be bringing in the ethical theories so one extra lessons that does nt require a slide is a debate.

So far as I can see, he published purely from an ethical obligation to full and honest debate, and found a way to encourage that debate in Skeptic by co-publishing Tapio Schneider's article and making both available without charge.

However, if climate change is understood as essentially a moral and ethical problem it will eventually transform how climate change is debated because the successful framing by the opponents of climate change policies that have limited recent debate to these three arguments, namely cost, scientific uncertainty, and unfairness of reducing ghg emissions until China does so can be shown to be deeply ethically and morally problematic.

There is an important need to change the focus of national debates on climate change policies at the national scale so that citizens understand the ethical problems with their country's national commitments.

Needless to say this has been deeply disturbing to an «ordinary Joe» (with 5 grandchildren) who has made an effort to understand the science and the politics that underlie the climate change «debate», especially since my country has become such an important player in the fossil fuel business with its tarsands and pipeline industries that affect us all, so I've tried to find out more about Judith Curry's recent contributions to the debate, not so much the hair - splitting, angels on the head of a pin, esoteric dissections of graphs and stats that I see here on your website but the ethical stance that you take on the larger issue of «killing» the IPCC and all it represents.