Of course it doesn't, you can guess the time without having no idea of it by just shouting a number and if it is correct, you guessed it - but it has no meaning! A dummy can follow an instruction without understanding it: it is a good instruction - but the unintelligent dummy does not know. The intelligent entity knows that the instruction is moral. The adequately intelligent entity is required to know that the instruction is moral, ethical, correct, the "right thing to do". You can write 'Four' on a piece of paper, and yes it's "2+2", but you cannot attribute a quality to a simple thing that does not have it...

Why does not the NN or whatever entity «understand ... what is appropriate»? Because it is not intelligent enough! How does an entity know what is moral and what is an «atrocity»? By being intelligent enough! Could an entity act appropriately without judgement? Yes, it happens all the time if the wind blows right, but we do not rely on that! How to make something act appropriately? Well, an Intelligent entity in the loop must be there to know what is appropriate and what not!