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Sunday, July 30, 2017

Moral decisions and Artificial Intelligence

It is reported that Driverless cars (Self driving cars) are expected to be on Britain’s roads by 2025. The cars can make “life and death” decisions on the roads! How?
So far, robots and other artificial intelligence based systems are being used in hospitals for surgery and other interventional procedures. Now, driverless cars on the roads to take moral decisions in situations where a collision with human being on the road is unavoidable!
A neuroscientist Leon Sutfeld and Prof. Gordon Pipa at the University of Osnabruck, Germany who are working on driverless cars, is stating that Human behavior in dilemma situations can be modeled by a “simple value of life based model that is attributed by the participant to every human, animal or inanimate object”. (Ref. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2017, 11, DOI:10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00122).
The ethical aspect is questionable?  Can machines take human-like moral decisions?
It is true that everybody is expected to follow traffic rules strictly. However, can a driverless car run over a child running on to the road rather than crashing on to an adult standing on the footpath while trying to save the child? Any answers?

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