Death By Robot

At the human robot interaction laboratory in Tufts university the researchers have ran into a dilemma. It's a scenario, but beyond that it's led to the dilemma of whether or not a robot can make ethical choices. A woman is in pain and can't move, she has a robot assistant that gives her medicine and takes care of her. The robot has to ask a supervisor each time whether or not it can give the woman medicine, for the fear of an overdose or something of that sort. The woman is crying in pain for the robot to give her painkillers because she is experiencing a lot of pain. But however the network is down, and the robot can't reach the supervisor to tell it to give her medicine. What would the robot do? That's what the dilemma is. So the researchers at Tufts are trying to create ethical decisive skill for robots.

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