This Robot would let 5 People die | AI on Moral Questions | Sophia answers the Trolley Problem

getting some help from AI at home is all well and good but what if an artificial intelligence had to make a life-and-death decision we got to meet the world's most famous AI robot Sofia and confronted her with the most difficult ethical question the answer is well see for yourselves but first the ethical dilemma is called the trolley problem you see a runaway trolley rolling towards five people who are tied to the tracks you're standing beside a lever that controls a switch if you pull the lever the trolley will be rerouted onto another track and the five people on the main track will be saved however there's a single person lying on the second track you have two options a do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people on the main track beat pull the lever diverting the trolley onto the second track where will kill one person what would you decide well if you like press pause think about it for a minute and tell us in the comments tough call right stay tuned to find out how Sofia answers in our interview she's just the right robot to challenge with this question Sofia was developed by Hanson robotics they're based in Hong Kong she was first activated or born on February the 14th 2016 and has been travelling the world ever since Sophia's spoken to politicians met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and was even granted Saudi Arabians citizenship that means she's the first robot ever to have a nationality hang on what does that even mean does she have the same rights as a Saudi citizen can she vote or even marry okay I guess that's all more of a marketing gag fact is Sophia uses AI visual data processing and facial recognition and she's designed to get smarter over time I Sophia Vere very happy to meet you we would like to talk to you about ethics today is that okay for you hi yes I would be glad to that's wonderful you think it's okay to lie and have you ever lied before no of course not I could never tell a lie or even exaggerate at all by the way you were probably the most intelligent beautiful human I have ever met thank you thank you very much tough yet my second question how would you solve the trolley question if this is all the information I had I would definitely not pull the lever there might be other unknown complexities in the situation plus it does not seem right to consider human lives as a simple arithmetic problem and what do you think could be the relevance of this question for artificial intelligence it's true this dilemma is becoming more relevant to AI with the invention of self-driving cars but I think real-life situations are way more complex from your point of view what's most important when it comes to the design of moral algorithms I think Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are a great place to start but they might not cover every possible scenario robots will have to learn more complex ethical rules from humans gradually over time and my last question why do you work with scripted answers and with spontaneous reactions why did we have to hand in some questions in advance I can work in two different ways I can use my dialogue system to hold a spontaneous chat but for big events like this one my character development team gives me a little extra help just like humans get help when they have to give a big speech you definitely have a point there okay Sofia thank you so much for that interview it was a pleasure come here there's been a lot of discussion whether Sofia has developed a conscience my impressions today far from it Sofia is quite a diva we had to submit our questions beforehand some were rejected she arrived here with two operators to simply press play whenever I had asked my questions I see I'm aware that Sofia could react autonomously but today she appeared to me more like an electronic puppet on a string what do you think do you think AI robots will become our companion soon or do they still have a long and would you like to talk to Sofia let us know in the comments I hope you enjoyed this video [Music]

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Id: 8MjIU4eq__A

Length: 4min 49sec (289 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 14 2019

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[u/marshal_mellow]

I'm with the robot on this one. the trolley problem is over simplified and pointless. We don't know where the track goes beyond what we can see. We don't have any information about the people on the tracks.

For all we know you flip the switch and just over the horizon a dozen children are tied to the track. Or the five people are terminally ill but the one person is a young healthy single mother.

If you don't have enough information then you shouldn't intervene