4 questions to help you start an interesting conversation

1. If you could upload your brain to a computer, would you do it?

Imagine that in the future it will be possible to download the brain into a computer, creating a complete digital copy of your consciousness. Only this new version is smarter than you, and over time it begins to accumulate impressions that you have never experienced in real life. Would you dare to do this? Why? Will this digital copy still count as you? Are you responsible for the decisions your copy makes? Should we have the right to have a relationship with someone's digital copy?

2. Should parents be able to edit their child's genes?

If your child was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect and a certain gene had to be removed to save him, what would you do? Most parents would most likely agree.

What if you can make your child smarter? More beautiful? Should parents have the right to choose a child's sexual orientation or skin color? What if it was only available to the rich? What if all other parents decided to “edit” their children and you didn't?

3. Does an unmanned vehicle have to kill a passenger to save five pedestrians?

Imagine: you are driving a self-driving car on a two-way road, when suddenly five children run out onto the road. The car has three options: crash into children, crash into a car in the oncoming lane, or crash into a tree on the side of the road. In the first case, five people may die, in the second - two, in the third - one. How do you program your car for such a case? Should she try to save the passenger or save as many lives as possible?

Are you ready to get into the car that might decide to kill you? Would you go with your child? Should all drones work according to the same rules, or will it be possible to pay extra for the car that saves the passenger in the first place?

4. What moral values should we put in AI?

Imagine a world with intelligent robots - machines many times superior to humans - that do not distinguish good from evil, justice from injustice. A lot of problems will arise. But it is even more problematic to lay moral values in them, because we, people, must choose these values.

What values should you give preference to? Who should decide which views are the most "correct"? Does each country have to agree on a certain set of values? And can a robot be given the ability to change its mind?