Project proposals are due Monday April 11th. In the final weeks of
class, students will
be invited to present their proposals in class, earning an additional
5 points. Group projects will be required to give a presentation.
Supreme Court Decisions
The Senate is voting this week on the confirmation of Ketanji
Brown Jackson, President Biden's nominee for the Supreme Court,
to replace Justice Breyer. The hearings last week in the
Judiciary Comittee were predicatably contentious. Judge Brown
Jackson was confirmed last year to the Court of Appeals. At that
time, Senator Lindsey Graham voted to confirm and Senator Mitt
Romney voted not to confirm. Both Senators have announced that
they are planning to reverse their votes for this new nomination.
Here are the reasons.
They each are looking at the same credentials and cases as they did
last year. However, they each are changing their minds. Why?
What explanation (or decision strategy) are they using? Are they in
fact using the same explanation?
Just as two senators can look at the same set of facts and reach different conclusions, so can Supreme Court justices. Consider the issue of qualified
immunity for police officers. What are the arguments for and against
this issue? How can two justices reach different conclusions, assuming
that they agree on the underlying issues?
Use polleverywhere:
https://pollev.com/slade
You may also download the app to your phone. Use the "slade" poll id.
We propose that Senators and Supreme Court justices often give
explanations or opinions that hide or obscure their real
reasons. That is, they lie. Should a computer lie?
or more realistically, When should a computer lie?
Goal-based Systems
See GBDMgoals.html Chapter 3: Goals. Age.
See Goals.html Agents.
See GBDMResources.html Chapter 4: Resources.
Case-based Systems
Case-Based Reasoning: A Research Paradigm Slade, 1990.
CBR.html
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