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The duties of an AI agent

Suggested age: 12-17Length: 20 minutes

Five situations where an AI agent has to decide. There are no obvious answers: you choose and then defend why.

Read the situation and choose what the agent should do.

Teacher sheet

Goal. Discuss that an AI agent has duties, and that almost none are settled by "obey" or by "refuse".

Questions to open the discussion

The idea that should stick. Almost all of them are debatable, except one: an agent must always say it is an agent. Without that, none of the other decisions can be judged.

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