Chapter 6 Introduction to Sec 2

Question 1

Rossum’s Universal Robots (1921) by Czech playwright Karel Čapek introduced the word _______ and the threat of a robot apocalypse simultaneously.

Answer 1

robot

Question 2

In a highly technological world, it’s possible to do one’s job to perfection, but that perfectly executed job leaves one feeling empty, unsatisfied. this is what Karl Marx called ______ from one’s own labor.

Answer 2

alienation

Question 3

In response to the harm done by widespread technology and automation, 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang argued that each American adult should receive $1000 per month, without condition, for life because millions of workers are permanently __________ by automation.

Answer 3

displaced

Question 4

Many philosophers have argued that happiness is founded upon human struggle that, when overcome, makes life purposeful, satisfying. Certainly, technology makes many aspects of life easier, but does it make life ________?

Answer 4

better

Question 5

What is Nick Bostrom’s (2003) famous thought experiment explaining the possible trajectory from the development of advanced AI to the apocalypse called?

Answer 5

paperclip Maximizer

Question 6

Nick Bostrom’s (2003) idea of the _______ __________ means that an advanced super intelligence may pursue goals that are alien to ours.

Answer 6

Orthogonality Thesis

Question 7

The Y2K computer glitch problem is also referred to as the _________ _________

Answer 7

millennium bug