ROBOT ETHICS AND ETHICAL ISSUES ABSTRACT Robot ethics is a branch of applied ethics which endeavours to isolate and analyse ethical issues arising in connection with present and prospective uses of robots. These issues span human autonomy protection and promotion‚ moral responsibility and liability‚ privacy‚ fair access to technological resources‚ social and cultural discrimination‚ in addition to the ethical dimensions of personhood. INTRODUCTION Robots are machines endowed with sensing‚ information
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Case No. 1 Sandigan throws out DepEd director case THE anti-graft court Sandiganbayan dismissed the case of a former Department of Education (DepEd) regional director and a regional accountant because of lack of evidence and jurisdiction.The Sandiganbayan First Division scrapped the cases of former chief of DepEd Region IX Ibrahim Albar and regional accountant Edwin Romero. Albar and Romero were charged of violating the Government Service and Insurance System (GSIS) Act of 1997 and the
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Living in South Florida‚ our hockey team is the Florida Panthers. Though there is a team that currently plays here‚ they do not match popularity when they face other sports like basketball’s Miami Heat or football’s Miami Dolphins. Based off this article‚ “No Doubting Canada’s role in making NHL what it is today” it switches the role of the most popular sport. In addition to being the most popular sport‚ Canada has managed to contribute to the NHL’s revenue more than the United States‚ even though
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When it comes to legal fees‚ Dickens often pontificated as to whether it was ever possible to have a fair trial when money determined the quality of representation. Two hundred years later and on the opposite side of the Atlantic‚ this issue is still ripe for debate because regardless of all the services available; social equality in the law does not exist - particularly when it comes to the mentally ill or disabled. This paper will discuss the ethical issues surrounding legal fees‚ examine the
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Ethical Health Care Issues HCS/545 Ethical Health Care Issues Breast Cancer is a serious issue that affects almost every woman worldwide‚ either directly as someone diagnosed with cancer‚ or indirectly through the illness of a loved one (Women’s Health Resource‚ 2014). Breast Cancer is found in women‚ in their twenties and thirties‚ and those with a family history of the disease. In 2006‚ approximately 212‚920 new cases of invasive breast cancer were diagnosed in the United States alone (Women’s
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Legal‚ Political‚ Ethical Dimension - Week 5 Midterm 1. Question : TCO B. After the 2010 fall election‚ the Democratic National Committee (DNC) decides to take matters into its own hands. During the lame duck session‚ they pass a new "Elections Are Free Act" that requires single people who make more than $75‚000/year or married couples who make more than $150‚000/year to provide a copy of their tax return to their local county officials before being allowed to register to vote. The return must
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Ethical Issues in Information Technology The society develops with unbelievable speed‚ from telegraphy‚ telephone‚ radio of 19th century to the modern 21th century‚ which is the Age with rapid developing and growing of knowledge and information. For example‚ Internet has been used widely everywhere in the world. We call it “global‚ Web-based platform‚ this platform enables people to connect‚ compute‚ communicate‚ compete‚ and collaborate anywhere‚ anytime to access limitless amounts of information
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Legal Issues in Business Organizations University of Phoenix June 29‚ 2012 SITUATION A Employee A’s leave of absence is covered under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993. FMLA applies to all companies with 50 or more employees. This act mandates an employee be allowed up to 12 weeks of leave for qualifying circumstances. The birth of Employee A’s child is a qualifying circumstance under the domestic responsibilities clause of the act. Longevity a clause in the FMLA also makes
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system: It’s what helped us develop the moral reasoning we use‚ how we define criminal activity‚ and what we as a society deem as acceptable punishment” (Gruber‚ 2013). Contingent upon your particular occupation inside the criminal equity framework‚ ethics will probably oversee your collaborations with crooks‚ impact your choice making procedures and influence your understanding of the law. Case in point‚ without the lawful and ethical organization of Miranda rights‚ advising and wrongdoer of his entitlement
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Hooters Current Ethical Issue Over the years the national chain restaurant Hooters has had lawsuits brought against them for discrimination based on gender. Currently‚ the issue is weight discrimination. Not just one lawsuit‚ but two‚ and maybe three lawsuits may be filed. The waitresses claim that they lost their jobs because they weighed too much. They were put on a 30-day weight probation and offered gym memberships. The ethical issue here is the fact the company practices such discrimination
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