A Three-step Strategy for Approaching Cyberethics Issues

So here is the guide my teacher wants me to follow for this essay.  The issue is autonomous weapons. The whole essay needs to talk about this autonomous weapons cyberethic issues and using these steps below. My grade will be determined in part by how well I’m apply each step in Tavani’s strategy to the issue. Also include the following article as one of your references:

The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’: Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
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APA style. 5 double-spaced pages in length, plus a title page plus a references page.

 

 

A Three-step Strategy for Approaching Cyberethics Issues

• Step 1. Identify a practice involving cyber-technology, or a feature in that technology, that is controversial from a moral perspective.

1a. Disclose any hidden (or opaque) features that have moral implications

• 1b. Assess any descriptive components of the ethical issue via the sociological implications
• it has for relevant social institutions and socio-demographic groups.
• 1c. In analyzing the normative elements of that issue, determine whether there are any specific
• guidelines, that is, social policies or ethical codes, that can help resolve the issue (e.g., professional
• codes of conduct described in Chapter 4 and Appendixes A-E).

• 1d. If the normative ethical issues cannot be resolved through the application of existing policies,
• codes of conduct, and so on, go to Step 2.

• Step 2. Analyze the ethical issue by clarifying concepts and situating it in a context.
• If a policy vacuums exists, go to Step 2b; otherwise go to Step 3.
• Clear up any conceptual muddles involving the policy vacuum and go to Step 3.

• Step 3. Deliberate on the ethical issue. The deliberation process requires two stages:

• 3a. Apply one or more ethical theories (see Chapter 2) to the analysis of the moral issue, and then go to step 3b.

• 3b. Justify the position you reached by evaluating it via the standards and criteria for successful
• logic argumentation (see Chapter 3).