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That is why we need to train robots to identify and weigh a given situation’s ethically relevant features (for example, those that indicate potential benefits or harm to a person).
The classic approach of biomedical ethics is to weigh the benefits for the patient against the risk of the intervention, and to respect the patient’s autonomous decisions.
We should weigh the costs, benefits, and probabilities as best as possible, and not be obsessed with extreme cases.
Project Syndicate’s commentators examine the arguments and weigh the evidence.
Those tensions will surely weigh on US financial markets and, in turn, on the American economy and American politics.
How do we weigh improved health and reduced mortality rates for hundreds of thousands of people against the serious consequences of global warming?
The choices they make will depend on how they weigh the risks of bloating their balance sheets, imposing costs on banks and consumers, pursuing possibly unattainable inflation targets, and hurting debtors and producers at home.
These are serious benefits to weigh against some business sluggishness.
The UK’s demand to weigh in on EU decisions can and should be accommodated, with experts from the UK included in the committees that decide trade policy.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to weigh breast cancer’s dangers against the cumulative effects of radiation from dozens of mammograms over the years, the invasiveness of biopsies, and the debilitating impact of treating slow-growing tumors that would never have proven fatal.
Against these limited benefits, we must weigh major risks such as “off-target edits.”
Their people should weigh carefully what that means.
Indeed, other regional organizations, such as the African Union or the Arab League, could weigh in.
In her second term, Bachelet will have to weigh her promise of radical reforms with her past experience (her only radical reform in her first term – a new public transportation system in the capital city of Santiago – backfired badly).
Against this trivial sacrifice one has to weigh the burden imposed by measures to reduce carbon emissions now and in the near future.
Moreover, no single state can weigh in on international negotiations and offer solutions to economic rivalries or trade issues that threaten to degenerate into political clashes.
These findings weigh heavily against the hypothesis that “austerity” has brought Greece to its present plight.
Increasing capital inflows weigh heavily on import-substituting and export sectors, and may even wipe them out if the appreciation is substantive and protracted.
The victory of Hollande, who has said that he wants to “renegotiate” the European Union’s new, German-backed “fiscal compact,” will weigh heavily in this debate.
True, crises in problem countries and doubts about the euro’s viability could weigh on the common currency’s value.
Sound economic judgment and discretion are required as well, given the need to weigh the risks of alternative policies and the ease with which financial markets can be roiled.
When pundits weigh in on emerging powers like Brazil and India, they typically point to the rise of the middle class and booms in education and connectivity.
But it is not necessary that we should weigh one evil against the other."
At the same time, the prospect of higher US inflation and massively higher US public debt levels must eventually weigh on the dollar, as does the still worrisome US trade deficit.
But this doesn’t mean that we should not weigh our words with care.
Better metrics would, at the minimum, weigh these costs against the benefits, possibly compelling policymakers to accompany such changes with others that enhance security and equality.
But the wait for war adds to uncertainties that already weigh on the American, and the global, economy:uncertainties arising from America's looming fiscal deficit, due to macroeconomic mismanagement and a tax cut that the country cannot afford;uncertainties arising from the unfinished "war on terrorism";uncertainties associated with the massive corporate accounting and banking scandals, and the Bush Administration's half-hearted efforts at reform, as a result of which no one knows what America's corporations are worth;uncertainties connected to America's massive trade deficit, which has reached all- time records.
Once upon a time, conventional wisdom maintained that curbing governments’ appetite for debt would put an end to over-borrowing, because private agents would know to act prudently and weigh the costs and benefits of one more dollar of debt.
But, without an international mechanism to compensate those most at risk of a warming planet, individual countries will weigh the trade-offs of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions differently.
Britain’s Democratic FailureCAMBRIDGE – The real lunacy of the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union was not that British leaders dared to ask their populace to weigh the benefits of membership against the immigration pressures it presents.
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