Classic Trolley Ethical Analysis

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This sentence is a great transition from the previous paragraph into the topic of this paragraph, which is the ethical analysis of an artificial intelligence choosing between two bad situations. Artificial intelligence raises two main problems. The first is a classic ethical dilemma; what is morally correct when choosing between two bad situations? The second question is unique to the discussion about artificial intelligence; how do we precisely and accurately define the morally correct choice? In an attempt to answer these questions, we consider the classic trolley problem.
The basic trolley problem is as follows. A trolley is moving down a track towards a fork in the track. On one side of the fork, there are five people tied up. On the other side of the fork, there is one person tied up. Without intervention, the trolley will go down the first side of the fork, killing five people, but there is a lever that can be pulled to divert the trolley down the second fork, killing only one
When considering something as difficult to recognize for humans as “the correct moral choice,” defining it for machines becomes even more difficult. With the increased difficulty in defining for the artificial intelligence what is right and what is wrong, the ethics of the definition itself must be questioned. If a definition of “the correct moral choice” is only correct 95% of the time, can it still be ethical to use that definition to make decisions? A simple variation of the trolley problem illustrates the problem. Consider the classic trolley problem with five people on one side of a fork and one person on the other fork. The variation in this case is that there is only 95% certainty that the group of five people is a group of real people, and not a billboard depicting people. In this situation, one must consider the resilience of the ability to identify people, in addition to the ethical

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