Chapter 14 Self Quiz

. One consideration in favor of technological optimism is

nuclear weapons.

social media.

the automobile.

vaccines.

. Technological optimists stress that, all things considered, humans are much better off today than ever before, which is largely due to technological innovations.The optimist believes that

not every single technology has turned out to be beneficial, but modern technology as a whole has brought us enormous benefits.

technology is valuable in an intrinsic sense.

technology is valuable for its own sake.

technology has final value: It is the endpoint of a chain of instrumentally valuable entities.

. According to the critical attitude to technology,

technological pessimists are too cynical and gloomy while optimists are too naïve.

while it is true that some technologies sometimes have negative effects on society, this is not true of all, or even most, technologies.

we should make negative remarks only when appropriate, typically at an early stage when the technology is still in the design phase, but we have no reason to make negative or positive remarks about technology as such.

All of the above

. The Tesla fatal autonomous driver accident was caused by

a bug that the engineers had not worked out.

poor programming of the computer.

purely human error.

overreliance on the autonomous system.

. According to Hans Jonas, modern technology has created a situation in which

no previous ethical system is sufficient to guide us.

humanity's fate is now certain.

humans are happier than ever.

humans have become sustainable.

. Which claim of Jonas's might utilitarians contest?

Duty is the central moral concept.

Previous moral theories are anthropocentric.

Kant was right.

Sustainability is our primary concern.

. The imperative of responsibility holds that

we should halt technological progress until we can do so responsibly.

humans are responsible for the environment.

we should act so that the effects of our actions are compatible with permanent human life.

we should adopt human happiness as primary responsibility.

. How do technological pessimists respond to technofixes like CDR and SRM?

Technology causes global warming it can't fix it.

We don't have sufficient control over the environment.

We don't know what other problems this technology might cause.

All of the above

. Technological optimists favor measures like robots caring for the old. Which of the following questions might van de Poel think we should ask before using technology like this?

Have users given informed consent?

Are there any irreversible effects of this technology?

Can users stop using the technology?

All of the above

. How do the Amish explain the difference between their use of technology and ours?

Modern technology is intrinsically evil and so they avoid it.

Modern technology causes more problems than it solves.

Modern technology makes us less human.

Technology is to be assessed for instrumental value for human purposes, and Amish have different purposes.

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