Introduction to ArtificiaI Intelligence in Higher Education
Ethic notes
1. If you owned a business where would you rank these
in importance of hiring an employee? The employee
would be filling a college-educated position.
• Smart/High intelligence
• Hard Working
• Trustworthy
• Has skills you need
• Nice to people
3. The bearded A&E star admitted he had
been kicked out of the hotel he was
staying at in New York after being
mistaken for a homeless man.
"The first thing that happened to me at
the hotel was I got escorted out,"
Robertson said. "I asked where the
bathroom was and he said, 'Right this
way, sir.' He was very nice, he walked
me outside, pointed down the road and
said, 'Good luck.'"
4. Have you ever said
anything stupid when
you are angry or
emotional?
5. "Threaten ya? I’ll put
you in a @#&!% rose
garden you #$^~! You
understand that?
Because I’m capable of
it. You understand
that?"
6. Have you ever regretted
doing something that
you knew was wrong?
14. Impartiality
• Impartiality-the idea that the
same ethical standards are
applied to everyone.
– Does not value one person or group
over another.
• White over black, men over women,
thin over fat, normal over disabled,
etc..
16. Business Ethics
• One big
difference from
personal ethics:
Profit
Maximization or
Money!!
• http://www.brockovich.com/
17. Profit Maximization
• Ethical or not?
– Move factories for lower wages
– Use inferior materials which make
you more money but are less safe
– Change materials or ingredients
without notifying customers
– Accounting practices to show more
money
– Taking away retirement packages
– Stretching the truth to get a sale
18. Examples?
• Personal
– Personal
• Found $100 bill
• Business - cash sales
• Dirt piles, new house
• Farmtown
• St. Rose papers, school work
• Stewart’s candy bars
• “Box of Meat” at Price Chopper
• Coaching, playing time
19. Why do you
follow the rules?
• Why can’t we urinate in public?
• Why do most people drive above
the speed limit?
• Why can’t we walk around
without clothes?
• Why is ok to tell someone that
they look good (when that’s not
really what you think?)
• Why can’t we steal?
20. Who would you hire?
• A person who makes the right
decision because they know if
they don’t bad consequences
will happen. Or
• A person who makes the right
decision because it is the right
thing to do and doesn’t think
about consequences.
21. Consequence Based Ethics
• We base ethical decisions on
consequences. Good or Bad
• Majority Rule: If the majority
thinks it is bad for society the
law says it’s bad.
– Created by the people and their
elected representatives.
– Greatest good for greatest number
22. Rule-based Ethics
• Acts are either right or wrong.
– Judged by Authorities
• Law, Church
– Society/People
• Civil Rights protection
– Example: slavery. The majority in
the south vs. the right thing to do?
• Cigarettes, Marijuana usage
• Marriages
23. What have you done because it
was just the right thing to do?
• Volunteered
• Returned money that wasn’t
yours.
• Corrected a wrong even if it hurt
you financially.
• Stop someone from bullying
another.
24. Would you give up your family and
risk your life to do the right thing?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=6wwJp8VDGzE the insider
• http://www.jeffreywigand.com/
25. Think of one thing you
considered doing with
friends that you would
never do alone or with
your parents.
Consequences, Rules?
26. Do what is right or do
what is easy?
This is mainly taught at
home. Friends and
peers do impact who
you become.
27. Why are we obligated to
obey laws?
• Ethics demands we obey
• We consent to be governed by
laws
– Integrity: to do what is right in the
face of temptation or pressure to
do wrong.
• Avoid punishment
28. Ethical or Unethical?
• MLK marched
against a cities
order. He was
arrested for civil
disobedience
and put in jail.
He knew it was
illegal. Was it
unethical?
