PERSUASIVE APPEALS

This kind of persuasive appeal suggests a claim is morally right or wrong, socially acceptable or unacceptable, popular or unpopular. This includes the bandwagon effect, "everyone is doing it."

• logical

• emotional

• ethical

• all of the above

This kind of persuasive appeal offers facts, reasons, or evidence to support a claim.

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• emotional

• ethical

• all of the above

This kind of persuasive appeal makes connections to our feelings to support a claim.

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• all of the above

Machine learning, deep learning, and other AI technologies are already being used to reduce human workloads in assembly, packaging, customer service, and HR, among other areas, and the move has reduced operational and employee costs substantially.

This claim is---

• logical

• emotional

• ethical

• all of the above

Climate events like hurricanes and wildfires threaten the health and property of thousands of people. The improved weather forecasting abilities of AI can protect people from dying in floods, fires, earthquakes, or worse.

 

This claim is---

• logical

• emotional

• ethical

• all of the above

It is a common trope that AI will one day be the end of humanity because robots and machines will deskill, destroy, or enslave us all. 

 

This claim is---

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• ethical

• all of the above

AI could create a situation where some people suffer while others are unaffected. This is morally wrong.

 

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• emotional and ethical

Nearly every successful company in every major industry has incorporated AI and machine learning into their day-to-day practices.

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• all of the above

The kind of repetitive jobs being taken over by AI are dehumanizing and degrading to humans. AI will allow them to live in a more fair world.

 

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• all of the above

AI has increased the discovery and production of many life-saving pharmaceutical breakthroughs. No longer will people have to live in fear of communicable diseases and early death. As pharmaceutical production becomes less expensive, there will be less of an unjust distribution of medicines to the people who need them most. Healthcare, at least, will be more fair.

This claim is---

• logical

• emotional

• ethical

• all of the above