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Who should survive?

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Imagine that you are in the near future and you travel on the road in an autonomous car, that is, in a car without a driver. There are two lanes and right next to your car there is a person. The car has the order to avoid people, for it would move to the other lane. But there is someone at the height of the other lane! Suppose these two people are not the same: one is young and another is old; or one is pregnant and the other is sick; or in one of the lanes there is one person and in the other two. What should the car do in each of these situations? How to schedule?

The developers of machines with artificial intelligence, among them the designers of autonomous cars, try to answer this type of questions. The answer, however, does not depend on them, since all the society must accept the ethical norms imposed on the machines so that they are accepted by the own machine.Thus, to know the moral or ethical opinion of the people, it is realized the greatest experiment carried out until the moment.The Moral Machine (Moral Machine), led by the Institute of Technology of the MIT Massachusetts, has received 40 answers In these three cases, therefore, it would be clear which order to give to the machines.On other occasions, on the contrary, there are differences in the priorities of who responds. For example, women's rescue priority was 0.06% lower among men in general, but in the countries of the southern hemisphere, both of one and of another gender, it was done for the life of women.The researchers have recognized that the study is nothing more than an approximation to the resolution of the issue, but consider that the conclusions obtained should be taken into consideration by the number of responses received. However, after so many malicious questions posed by the researchers, it might not be wrong to add that you have answered what you really think (or have you sought the good eye-catcher)?

 

Published in the newspaper Berria.