Moral agency

What are the ethical dangers of AI? Reverend Walter Kim.

This is a different form of technology that we have not only anthropomorphized, but we're yielding some moral agency to.

On the moral questions of today's newest technologies.

The splitting of the atom.

We can decide to use it for radiation therapy to treat cancer, or we can make a dirty bomb.

But the moral agency remained with the human.

Plus, tax-free diesel.

Elon Musk is a trillionaire, again.

End of Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes by Miss Parloa.

Concerning the notion of liberty and of moral agency by Jonathan Edwards.

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They suppose the essence of liberty so much to consist in these things that unless the will of man be free in this sense, he has no real freedom, how much soever he may be at liberty to act according to his will.

A moral agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty.

To moral agency belongs a moral faculty or sense of moral good and evil, or of such a thing as desert or worthliness or praise or blame, reward or punishment, and a capacity which an agent has of being influenced in his actions by moral inducements or motives exhibited to the view of understanding and reason to engage to a conduct agreeable to the moral faculty.

The sun is very excellent and beneficial in its action and influence on the earth in warming it and causing to bring forth its fruit, but it is not a moral agent.

If the machine decided this, it knows something we do not.

When society universally accepts a system it cannot comprehend, it abolishes conscious moral agency.

It resurrects the unthinking obedience of the Bronze Age.

The central truth of Jaynesian theory is that consciousness requires constant maintenance.

Everywhere, we seek to be good parents and good citizens, to contribute in our neighborhoods and societies, including through Latter-day Saint charities.

God gives us moral agency.

and moral accountability, declares the Lord, I, the Lord, make you free, therefore you are free indeed.

In proclaiming liberty to the captives, the Lord promises that his atonement and gospel path can break temporal and spiritual bonds.

Sure.

If we accept that a drug can remove someone's moral agency, are we therefore accepting that the drugs can remove the concept of the self?

Well, the self's pretty complicated, but it certainly can confuse and impair it.

When I was in the hospital, I don't know what would have happened to me if my wife wasn't managing what they were doing to me.

My wife's reminding me,

but...

If we accept that drugs can end a moral agency, do we not run the risk of removing responsibility for one's actions?

Yeah, what about the whole issue of responsibility? Well, I don't like to take cases, for example, where the main argument is not guilty by reason of insanity, schizophrenia, psychosis, bipolar disorder, because I don't want to take away moral agency from people who have normal brains.

Sure.

If we accept that a drug can remove someone's moral agency, are we therefore accepting that the drugs can remove the concept of the self?

Well, the self's pretty complicated, but it certainly can confuse and impair it.

When I was in the hospital, I don't know what would have happened to me if my wife wasn't managing what they were doing to me.

I've written about it to some extent.

My wife's reminding me, but...

If we accept that drugs can hinder moral agency, do we not run the risk of removing responsibility for one's actions?

Yeah, what about the whole issue of responsibility? Well, I don't like to take cases, for example, where the main argument is not guilty by reason of insanity, schizophrenia, psychosis, bipolar disorder, because I don't want to take away moral agency from people who have normal brains.