Final Part 2: Essay Questions

You get to choose three of the following essays. Answer your chosen essays in the three boxes below. Be sure to make it clear which essays you are answering. Spend no more than about 15-20 minutes on each essay. 

Do not use any other sources, ChatGPT, browser, or copy any materials from elsewhere. Answer these essays using only your own brain.

Write a short argument either for or against the proposal below. Outlines/bullet points are fine. Focus your arguments on evidence that we have discussed in this course.

1. “The UN should create an international body to regulate AI development, with global control over the manufacturing and distribution of the specialized chips needed for large AI models.”
   
   
2. “We have an obligation to investigate whether AI entities exhibit consciousness and/or self-awareness. If it appears that they have these traits, then we must treat them as worthy of moral consideration.”
   
   
3. “Within 5-10 years, AI will outperform humans at 99% of cognitive tasks, across all domains (e.g. creativity, analytical reasoning, teaching, decision making, management).”
   
   
4. “The US should make it a crime to counterfeit humans. It would be illegal to claim or suggest human involvement in a process or product that only involved AI.”
   
   
5. “In future offerings, Gen Ed 1188 should not include the novel Frankenstein.”
   
   
6.  “When a company uses AI to make decisions, and bias in the AI results in legally actionable discrimination, both that company and the maker of the AI (e.g. OpenAI) should jointly be held liable for discrimination.”
   
   
7. “The economic benefits of AI-induced productivity in workplaces outweigh the risks of job displacement.”
   
   
8. “The creative output from an AI may be copyrighted, with copyright held by the human who directed or prompted the AI to make the work.”
   
   
9. “The AI revolution over the next 20 years will have economic, social, and political impacts larger than those of the First Industrial Revolution.”
   
   
10. “ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web”