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CoRR, 2020 We want artificial intelligence (AI) to be beneficial. This is the grounding assumption of most of the attitudes towards AI research. We want AI to be "good" for humanity. We want it to help, not hinder, humans. Yet what exactly this entails in theory and in practice is not immediately apparent.
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Cosmopolitan Utilitarianism and the Problem of Local Inaction in a Globalized World
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2015 This article explores the problem of the public acceptability of political inaction as an extreme consequence of cosmopolitan utilitarianism. The case of political inaction as the utility-maximizing public policy option emerges more clearly in the ...
Fausto Corvino
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Biology for the Utilitarian [PDF]
Cell Biology Education, 2004 Students enjoy learning about everyday applications of life science. I highlight these on the first day of Cell Biology 302 using the job search engine, Monster.com. By scrolling through the results of a “Cell Biologist” key-word search, students learn how cell biologists apply fundamental biological concepts to their careers.
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John Stuart Mill; Act or Rule Utilitarianism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2018 In this paper, we defend the rule-based interpretation of John Stewart Mill's utilitarianism. First, we will explain briefly this recent and new dualism in the philosophy of utilitarian ethics. In general, Utilitarianists are divided into two categories:
hamze hatampouri
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Utilitarianism and Heuristics [PDF]
The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2020 The paper develops an alternative to Expected UtilityAnalyses which are often too complex to use in Utilitarianism.
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Zhuāngzĭ and Ailton Krenak Against Utilitarianism
Asian StudiesDespite temporal and geographical differences, two thinkers impacted their contexts with similar critiques of a type of reasoning they called “utilitarianism”: Zhuāngzǐ 莊子 (China, 369–286 BCE) and Ailton Krenak (Brazil, born 1953).
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the link between sustainable entrepreneurship and ethics. Based on a systematic literature review, the article analyzes 153 articles by adopting a content analysis approach. The article explores dominant theories, themes and key stakeholders impacted by sustainable entrepreneurship and ethics and focuses on novel ...
Melissa Demartini +2 more
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Communication Skills of the Leader in the School Unit: Applied Ethics and Rule Utilitarianism
Conatus - Journal of PhilosophyThe purpose of this study is to highlight the importance of developing and cultivating the communication skills of school unit leaders and teachers, and the connection between these skills, based on rule utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is fundamental for
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Utilitarianism and Christian Theology
St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023 Utilitarianism is one of the most straightforward ethical theories: it simply calls for the greatest welfare for the greatest number. Despite its early links to theological reasoning, this moral view has often been sharply contrasted with the outlook of ...
Vesa Hautala, Dominic Roser
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Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
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