Concept tag
#responsibility
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The tumour cases: why does a cause we can see on a scan excuse, when one we can’t see doesn’t?
I am a physician in Addis Ababa. In clinic I have met patients whose personalities changed with a lesion: a meningioma, a frontal stroke. Families say "it's not him, it's the illness", and they are usually right to. There is a famous…
Started by Tsion Bekele6 replies204 views -
I design systems that steer behaviour. Where does my responsibility end?
I design games in Tainan. My job is to shape what players want to do next: rewards spaced so that the next one is always just ahead, social features that make leaving feel like letting friends down, events that expire so you…
Started by Huang Wei-ting5 replies124 views -
Reading group: Hans Jonas, The Imperative of Responsibility, the first two chapters
Jonas published Das Prinzip Verantwortung in 1979 and the English version, which he prepared with David Herr, came out in 1984 as The Imperative of Responsibility. I taught ethics for years without reading it properly, and now that I have time I…
Started by Henrike Vogel5 replies151 views -
Who is morally responsible when an AI system causes harm?
Andreas Matthias coined the term "responsibility gap" in 2004: when a learning system behaves in ways its designers couldn't predict, it seems nobody is fully responsible. The designers didn't intend the outcome, the operators couldn't foresee it, and the system isn't a…
Started by Nur Aisyah Rahman3 replies94 views