Question

Robots raise several ethical issues especially concerning safety of human lives. Which ethical values should have been embedded in them to enable them to make ethical decisions?

Answer 1

Yes, I do agree with the statement provided. The AI based robots cannot be 100% accurate logically. The system must be properly trained with millions of examples so that error less would be less. But, still there are some ethical concerns arise in some unavoidable circumstances. In that case, it should decide whom should be saved and how should be saved.

These ethical values which must need to be embedded into the system to handle this type of situations. Some of them are:

è Decide based on the number of lives you can save. For example, the system is going to crash. If you go straight, you might hit 5 persons, if you go on left, you might hit 3 persons. The system should have emergency controller which takes the control when the main controller loses its control. Understand the AI based visualization and decide.

è Decide based on the negative impact. For example, the system is going to crash. If you go straight, you might hit 5 persons, if you go on left, you might hit 3 persons. Your system decides to hit 3 persons. But, after that there is a praying area where hundreds of people assemble. If your system hits back them as well it will have very negative impact. Understand the geographical conditions to proceed further.

è Decide based on weather conditions.

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