Tag: morality
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Weekly digest 41
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Focus on designing valid assessments
Assessment validity is more important than cheating in higher education. This post presents a position paper arguing that focusing on valid assessments addresses cheating without moralising. It suggests that anti-cheating measures can sometimes harm validity and inclusion. We should emphasize the importance of ensuring graduates can demonstrate the capabilities our assessments claim to measure, rather…
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Weekly digest 25
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Large Language Models as Moral Experts?
The general consensus among most people has been that human values will forever be the domain of human beings, and not AI. This paper seems to suggest that moral judgement may not be off-limits to machines after all.
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Podcast – Being Good and Doing Good (Making Sense #44)
https://samharris.org/podcasts/being-good-and-doing-good/ In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Oxford philosopher William MacAskill about effective altruism, moral illusions, existential risk, and other topics. William MacAskill is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford. He was educated at Cambridge, Princeton, and Oxford. He is one of the primary voices in…
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Comment: Will robots have rights in the future?
If we get to create robots that are also capable of feeling pain then that will be somewhere else that we have to push the circle of moral concern backwards because I certainly think we would have to include them in our moral concern once we’ve actually created beings with capacities, desires, wants, enjoyments, miseries…
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Research development workshop: research ethics
This presentation mainly used the ethics policy of this institution, so I didn’t take many notes considering that I have the policy. The intention of ethics in research is to safeguard human dignity and to promote justice, equality, truth and trust → crtical reflection on morality Ethics are norms for conduct that distinguish between acceptable…