The onset of automation and Artificial Intelligence promises to streamline and make efficient a great number of things in our society. One of the principal areas that is ripe for automation is the way that we travel in cars. The amount of energy that we waste in cutting the air with our cars, and the inefficient way that we drive as humans could be rectified with a fully automated transit system, with cars and trucks travelling centimeters away from each other. Another potential beneficial side effect could be that we have transportation on demand, without the need for the wasteful personal ownership of automobiles.
However, both automation (via algorithms) and AI (via learning routines) would need to be trained in what would constitute a "correct" solution to an ethical dilemma. This would have to be done by humans. So, for this SBI giveaway, I want to ask about your opinions on some very basic ethical questions. Needless to say, there are no correct answers for these questions, so I will be doing a random selection for the winner of the SBI shares.
The Questions
This is a classical Ethics question known as the Trolley Problem, where a trolley is hurtling down a track that is about to kill 5 people.
Question 1
Would you flip a switch to make the trolley kill one person instead of the five?
Question 2
Would you flip the switch if the one person to be killed was a child instead of 5 adults?
Question 3
Would you throw another person onto the tracks to stop the trolley? If they were a friend? If they were the most evil person on Earth?
Question 4
Would you buy a car that might be programmed to kill you (the occupants) instead of others if the ethical conditions were right?
Question 5
Would you buy a car that would protect you at all costs regardless of the danger or survival of other people?
My thoughts
Yes, I think I would flip the switch. In this case, I think that sheer numbers determines the correct choice. The thought of killing one person directly is somehow less disconcerting to me than killing 5 via inaction.
Again, this is trickier, I would have to say, yes. For me, the numbers matter more.
No, no and no. I can't say why, but the actual thought of directly pushing someone into harm's way seems more repugnant than flipping a switch....
I wouldn't be particularly keen. In my mind, I know it should be the right thing to do, but I have a voice screaming "don't do it"!
Again, intellectually I would have to say no, but I think I would prefer the car protects me.... But, this would become a sheer arms race.
So those are my answers as honestly as I can give them. I know there are the purer choices that I should choose, but I think if I was really honest with myself, I don't think that I would do it in real life.
So, for this week's entry. Answer the 5 questions as best as you can, with some accompanying text about your thoughts. No personal choosing of entries this week, I leave it up to a random generator!
Steem Basic Income
One of the first communities that I came in contact with at the beginning of my time at Steemit was 
With this post, I want to help sponsor people who might not even have the spare 1 STEEM that is required for registration. So, when this post pays out, I will sponsor people depending on the payout of this post. Basically, I will round up the SBD payout from this post and then that will be the number of people I will sponsor. (So, if the payout is 2.3 SBD, I will sponsor 3 people).
Rules
- Upvote if you want, it increases the payout and then I can hopefully sponsor more people.
- Resteem is NOT neccessary, but the more people see this, the more the people will be likely to be sponsored.
- In the comments, answer the 5 questions with some thoughts about why you chose as you did.
- I will be sponsoring as many people as this post pays out in SBD. Also I will kick in at least the required amount to round up to the full number. Winner is by random generator this week!
Last week's winners
Some absolutely great entries last week! So hard to choose a few things to make up a meal, with so many other favourite foods having to take second place! It's like picking your favourite child....
Last post payout was 2.211 SBD. So, 3 shares that I will be sponsoring.
With so many delicious photos (and copyright minefields) I'm not going to post them here, but I direct you back to the comment section here: https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@bengy/steem-basic-income-giveaway-design-your-last-meal
You can also see her entry in this post here: https://steemit.com/bengy/@viking-ventures/my-perfect-last-meal-my-entry-for-bengy-s-contest
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