Updated 2026-08-28hard
Duolingo English Test Read Aloud Practice #12 — Hard Level
Free DET (Duolingo English Test) Read Aloud practice #12 — Hard level. Just DET Speaking questions, no grading — solve it yourself and check the answer or model response.
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Q1 · Read Aloud
The role of ethics in technological advancement has become one of the most pressing concerns of our era. As artificial intelligence systems acquire greater autonomy and capability, the question of how to encode human values into non-human agents has moved from speculative philosophy to urgent engineering practice. At stake is not merely the efficiency of future systems but the moral integrity of the decisions those systems will make on our behalf. A society that deploys autonomous technologies without subjecting them to rigorous ethical scrutiny risks outsourcing its most consequential judgments to processes that are opaque, unaccountable, and potentially misaligned with the deontological commitments that underpin our legal and moral frameworks.
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autonomy (stress: au-TON-o-my) — four syllables, stress on the second; integrity (stress: in-TEG-ri-ty) — four syllables, stress on the second; consequentialism (stress: con-se-QUEN-tial-ism) — six syllables, stress on the third; morality (stress: mo-RAL-i-ty) — four syllables, stress on the second; imperative (stress: im-PER-a-tive) — four syllables, stress on the second; deontological (stress: de-on-to-LOG-i-cal) — six syllables, stress on the fourth
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