ETHICS 205: FINAL QUIZ COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY GUIDE 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ The goal of general AI is to carry out tasks across a wide variety of
domains..
Answer: True
◍ Narrow AI can perform tasks in specific domains (eg. chess).
Answer: True.
◍ Floridi thinks the conditions of agency are:.
Answer: Interactivity (receive and use data from the environment, through
sensors or other forms of data input) Autonomy (take actions based on the
input data, autonomously, to achieve goals, through actuators or other forms
of input) Adaptability (improve its performance by learning from its
interactions)
◍ Floridi offers 5 conditions for his new concept of agency..
Answer: False
◍ An algorithm is a set or sequence of instructions (like a recipe) that provides
an output based on an input..
Answer: True
◍ Embodied AI is modeled on biological systems embedded in environments..
Answer: True
◍ Connectionist AI is modeled on neural networks..
Answer: True
◍ Symbolic AI is called.
Answer: "Good ol' Fashioned AI"
, ◍ According to Floridi, what does the digital revolution do to our realities?.
Answer: Cleaves and Re-Organizes them
◍ How does the digital revolution affect the nature of agency?.
Answer: It decouples agency from the need to be intelligent
◍ "Functional Morality" is the claim that AIs can be designed to evaluate
delimnas in ways that are functionally equivalent to how humans would
evaluate a dilemma..
Answer: True
◍ What are some things commonly asked or claimed when people discuss
whether AIs are moral agents or moral patents?.
Answer: Capacity (What AIs do) Performance (How we evaluate AIs) and
Design (ways we should develop AIs)
◍ Deborah Johnson argues that AIs have no moral agency; only humans (the
designers) can have moral agency..
Answer: True
◍ "Weak Moral Agency" means that an entity (human or AI) has casual
powers to affect the world in ways that are not morally neutral..
Answer: True
◍ An entity that is the recipient of ethical consideration is.
Answer: a moral patent
◍ There are two definitions of moral agency..
Answer: False
◍ "Full Moral Agency" means that an entity can act on a capacity for free and
direct choice, has casual power to affect the world in non-morally neutral
ways, and is responsible for both choices and the impact of casual power..
Answer: True
◍ An entity that has a morally relevant property and which must be included in
our moral consideration has.
Answer: moral standing.
STUDY GUIDE 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ The goal of general AI is to carry out tasks across a wide variety of
domains..
Answer: True
◍ Narrow AI can perform tasks in specific domains (eg. chess).
Answer: True.
◍ Floridi thinks the conditions of agency are:.
Answer: Interactivity (receive and use data from the environment, through
sensors or other forms of data input) Autonomy (take actions based on the
input data, autonomously, to achieve goals, through actuators or other forms
of input) Adaptability (improve its performance by learning from its
interactions)
◍ Floridi offers 5 conditions for his new concept of agency..
Answer: False
◍ An algorithm is a set or sequence of instructions (like a recipe) that provides
an output based on an input..
Answer: True
◍ Embodied AI is modeled on biological systems embedded in environments..
Answer: True
◍ Connectionist AI is modeled on neural networks..
Answer: True
◍ Symbolic AI is called.
Answer: "Good ol' Fashioned AI"
, ◍ According to Floridi, what does the digital revolution do to our realities?.
Answer: Cleaves and Re-Organizes them
◍ How does the digital revolution affect the nature of agency?.
Answer: It decouples agency from the need to be intelligent
◍ "Functional Morality" is the claim that AIs can be designed to evaluate
delimnas in ways that are functionally equivalent to how humans would
evaluate a dilemma..
Answer: True
◍ What are some things commonly asked or claimed when people discuss
whether AIs are moral agents or moral patents?.
Answer: Capacity (What AIs do) Performance (How we evaluate AIs) and
Design (ways we should develop AIs)
◍ Deborah Johnson argues that AIs have no moral agency; only humans (the
designers) can have moral agency..
Answer: True
◍ "Weak Moral Agency" means that an entity (human or AI) has casual
powers to affect the world in ways that are not morally neutral..
Answer: True
◍ An entity that is the recipient of ethical consideration is.
Answer: a moral patent
◍ There are two definitions of moral agency..
Answer: False
◍ "Full Moral Agency" means that an entity can act on a capacity for free and
direct choice, has casual power to affect the world in non-morally neutral
ways, and is responsible for both choices and the impact of casual power..
Answer: True
◍ An entity that has a morally relevant property and which must be included in
our moral consideration has.
Answer: moral standing.
