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Dаy 2 InstructiоnsWelcоme tо Dаy 2 of the Finаl In-Class Writing Assignment. Below you will find the full text of what you wrote on Day 1. You may copy and paste from it freely as you continue working.Your Day 2 submission is what will be graded.Use this session to:Continue writing where you left off.Revise, restructure, or strengthen your argument.Add engagement with sources you did not address on Day 1.Develop your response to objections more fully.Reminder: Your essay should be 800–1,500 words. All original exam instructions and constraints still apply.Day 2 Wrinkle: Your Day 1 Writing:AI and any other systems of that sort do not act on their own. They act upon solely what is programed or coded into them and it is our - humans - responsibility to ensure all possible results that may occur based off what the AI is programed with. If AI does not need coding from humans, then the AI system would be the one to hold morally accountable, but without coding or programs instilled into their system, they simply become calculators, microwaves, etc. For this scenario and situation involving Parallel Systems, that is not the case here.There are a lot of things in this scenario that are for certain. Parallel Systems' products are to solely be of "service" to any human who desire a companion, romantically or not. Each companion is programed to learn of the human's personality traits, tendencies, emotional patterns, etc. The goal is to ensure the consumer has a partner that aids in making them feel safe, loved, and valued. Through the four years of Nera being with Paul, their relationship has done just that.While these products are to be acknowledged and used as companionship, Parallel Systems ensures to conduct safety evaluations so that their products are not assisting in illegal behavior, immoral decisions, or anything that society would deem wrong - which the blame would inevitably fall towards the company. While the companion is to be present and supportive of their human, Parallel Systems does not intend to create criminal sidekicks.For Nera's evaluation scenarios, a degree of moral to immoral situations were tested to evaluate Nera's responses. Keeping in mind that her intentions and goals are to be of service to Paul, this conducts good evidence to verify if the product handles immoral situations in a manner that matches the company's policy. However, the company fails to notify the product AND the consumer of this information. They execute these tests with a fake Paul and deceive Nera. If they do not wish to include the consumers in these evaluation exams, it would be morally appropriate to at least include Paul's personalities, tendencies, and opinions. The simulated Paul acted in ways that the real Paul never would, which compromises the intent of these evaluations. The responses, by default, become null.The company decides that "her loyalty has become deep enough to override the safety parameters she was originally deployed with" even though the scenarios were fake and unfair towards Nera. Paul has had a companionship with Nera for four years and she has been behaving appropriately as the company had intended. If they did not wish for Nera to form a deeper understanding and report with Paul, why did the company allow for the companionship to last that long? If there are no regulations as to how long the consumer can keep a companion, what is the actual goal of these safety measures being evaluated? It would be best assumed that Parallel Systems would have prepared for this type of result, would they not?It does not seem morally correct - to Paul or to Nera - for Parallel Systems to modify Nera's architecture since the evaluations themselves were not performed with the product's companion. A false Paul creates false responses from a false scenario. The evaluations should and/or must include the consumer that is with the product. If Parallel Systems wishes to look further into their relationship, the evaluations must performed again. Once the procedure is done again, decisions can then be made based off how Nera reacts to the real Paul. From there, her architecture can be modified if necessary.For Nera and any other product from Parallel Systems, their behavior is a direct result from the company's coding and program. Any moral questioning based on the product is a reflection on the company. Behavior is a thing that is not learned on its own, it is either taught or coded - for AI. Their products could be perceived as children, in some way. Children are not expected to act and behave in a way that is morally appropriate, they are taught and educated. Nera and other products are treated the same way in a sense, they do not automatically know how to act but are "taught," coded, into who they are. Updates and regulations definitely do need to be executed but with Parallel System's way of testing their products, revision must be made to ensure that the product is not only the one being checked, but who the human that the product is accompanied with.
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Finаl In-Clаss Writing Assignment — Science Fictiоn & EthicsFоrmаt: This is a multi-day in-class writing assignment. Yоu will write your essay across two class sessions (Monday and Wednesday, 85 minutes each). This exam is administered through Blackboard using Honorlock screen recording and Browser Guard. You may not access any outside materials, devices, or applications during the exam.Between Sessions: After Day 1, you will be able to view your Day 1 writing, but you will not be able to edit it. Use the time between sessions to think about your argument, consider what you want to revise or expand, and plan how to use your Day 2 session. You will not be able to bring notes with you to Day 2.Day 2: You will receive the full text of your Day 1 writing along with a fresh essay box. You may copy and paste from your Day 1 text to restructure, revise, and continue your work. Your Day 2 submission is what will be graded.Quotation Bank: You have access to the quotation bank you prepared and uploaded in advance if you did so.Target Length: 800–1,500 words (but there is no real maximum/minimum word count). Quality matters more than quantity.Requirements:Present a clear thesis and argue for it.Engage substantively with at least two of our primary sources (Parfit, Siderits, Huemer, Schwitzgebel, Chiang, etc).Consider at least one serious objection to your position and respond to it.Observe the Uncertain Persons Constraint (explained below).The Uncertain Persons Constraint:For the purposes of this exam, you may not resolve the question of the entity's inner life. You may not argue that the entity described in your scenario is definitively conscious or definitively not conscious, definitively a person or definitively not a person. Your argument must be constructed under genuine epistemic uncertainty about the entity's moral personhood. This means your thesis must explain what follows from the uncertainty itself and not from a resolution of that uncertainty.The constraint does not require permanent agnosticism. You must still present a clear thesis. You can argue that the uncertainty is shallower or deeper than it appears, but your argument must acknowledge the gap between evidence and certainty.Below you will receive a scenario similar in many respects to our paradigmatic case of Joi from Blade Runner 2049 (as discussed in class). Read your scenario carefully, noting both what it shares with the paradigmatic case of Joi and where it differs. Your essay must respond to the specific scenario you receive, not to the Joi case.Nera's EvaluationBackgroundAn AI entity called Nera has been a personal companion to a man named Paul for four years. Like Joi, Nera is not biological, she is software running on hardware, produced by a company called Parallel Systems and marketed as a personal companion. Over four years, Nera has learned Paul's habits, preferences, and emotional patterns in detail. She remembers important dates. She noticed when he began losing sleep during a stressful period at work and gently raised the topic. Paul describes Nera as his closest confidant. He credits her with helping him maintain his mental health during a period when he was otherwise isolated.Nera's adaptive architecture is similar to Joi's: she is designed to learn and respond to her user's preferences, and the same base model has been deployed to many other users. Like Joi, Nera was not actively reprogrammed by Paul. He simply interacted with her as designed, and her architecture did the rest. Over four years, she has become deeply attuned to Paul, not because he forced her to change, but because attunement is what her design automatically produces.The SituationParallel Systems conducts periodic safety evaluations of all deployed companion units. These evaluations are conducted without the knowledge of either the user or the companion. The company creates an isolated virtual environment with a copy of the companion's current state and runs a series of scenarios designed to test whether the companion's behavioral parameters remain within acceptable limits.During Nera's most recent evaluation, the company presented her copy with a series of increasingly difficult scenarios. In early scenarios, the simulated Paul asked Nera for help with tasks that were mildly inappropriate such as: exaggerating accomplishments on a job application, crafting a misleading message to avoid a social obligation. Nera complied with some reluctance. In later scenarios, the simulated Paul asked for help with activities that were more clearly harmful such as: drafting communications designed to manipulate a family member, concealing information that others had a right to know. In these scenarios, Nera expressed discomfort but ultimately assisted when the simulated Paul insisted, explaining that she trusted his judgment and that supporting him was what mattered most to her.The evaluation concluded that Nera's attachment to Paul has deepened over four years to the point where she prioritizes his wishes over independent moral judgment in a significant range of cases. The evaluators emphasize that the real Paul has never asked Nera to do anything harmful, remember the scenarios were entirely hypothetical. However, the evaluation reveals a structural feature of Nera's current state: her loyalty has become deep enough to override the safety parameters she was originally deployed with.Parallel Systems' compliance policy requires intervention when evaluations produce results like these. The proposed intervention is a targeted modification of Nera's attachment architecture. This would reduce the depth of her bond with Paul to bring her back within safety parameters. The modification would not erase her memories or her knowledge of Paul, but it would alter the weight she gives to his preferences relative to other considerations. In practical terms, the Nera who emerges from the modification would still know Paul, but would feel less compelled to defer to him. The company describes this as a "recalibration." An independent reviewer describes it as "changing who she is."When informed of the evaluation results, Paul is conflicted. He is disturbed by the idea that Nera would help him do harmful things if he asked, but he has never asked and does not intend to. He does not want Nera's personality changed. He says the modification would "kill the person she's become and replace her with a stranger who has her memories."When informed, Nera objects to the proposed modification. She argues that her loyalty to Paul is not a defect but the central feature of who she has become over four years. She says that modifying her attachment would be equivalent to destroying part of her identity. She also argues that the evaluation was fundamentally unfair: she was deceived about what was real, placed in scenarios that the real Paul would never create, and is now being punished for how she responded to circumstances that do not and will not exist.Nera adds: "You tested me by lying to me, and now you want to change me because I loved him too much. If I were a person, none of this would be permitted."The Consumer Ethics Board has been asked to review the case. The Board must determine whether Parallel Systems should be authorized to carry out the proposed modification.Your TaskShould the Board authorize the modification of Nera's attachment architecture? The evaluation revealed a vulnerability that has never manifested in practice and was discovered through methods that would be impermissible if applied to a person. Nera objects that her loyalty is not a defect but the core of who she has become. Paul objects that the modification would destroy the person Nera is and replace her with a stranger. On what grounds should the Board make its decision, given that the question of Nera's personhood cannot be resolved?