(1000 – 1250 words): Students compose an essay outlining their position, attitude or intention towards the specified topic. The student’s position must be clearly identified, discussed and supported with evidence from reliable sources. The student must take a position that applies belief and reasoning systems to concepts of ethics and/or knowledge (DBR 200.1) and applies said systems of knowledge and/or ethics to issues in society, history, faith, spirituality, and/or one’s own life from a global perspective (DBR 200.2).

So-for this specific assignment-students will use one of the first three discussion topics as described generally below: (Discussion Four to make an argument about the ethics of using AI’s to supplement/replace human friendships!)

Disc 4-Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethic (the ethical limits of friendship and technology)-argue whether technology undermines human relations-especially friendships-or can augment or improve them using Aristotelian ethics as the measure of good or useful or perfect friendships

Requirements: 1000-1250 words

To cite the main reading this chapter:

Ross, W. D. (Trans.) (2018). Nicomachean ethics. In M. Lewis & T. Ferstle (Eds.), Dialogues of belief and reason level 200 (3rd ed., pp. 172-179). Lynn University Digital Press. (Original work published ca. 350 B.C.E.)

In-text citation: (Ross, ca. 350 B.C.E./2018, p. __)

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The kind of friendship that exists with AI technology is an unequal friend seen between the ruler and its subjects, which relatively undermines human relations. In principle, social AI and human subjects have different reasons for being in a friendship. Each party, then neither gets the same from the other nor ought to seek it (Ross, ca. 350 B.C.E./2018, p. 176). Even if the commitment from both subjects for whatever reasons can lead to an excellent friendship, it implies a high level of inequality which is not a desirable aspect of friendship. ‘‘The intellectual capacities of AI surpass the human capacities’’ (Cataleta, 2021). Technology has blurred the significance of human beings becoming objects in the friendship to respond to the emotional and cognitive stimulus they interact with. Even if the social AI can integrate aspects of proper friendship where the AI expresses highly submissive behavior, there are few incentives to promote those features (Fröding, B., & Peterson, 2020). Virtue alignment of the social AI
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