The pop mathematics that tries to give algorithms morality: "In Europe we prefer to save a baby and in the East, an old man"

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Updated Thursday, March 9, 2023-15:18

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a game.

It is called "The Moral Machine" and

For example, in an autonomous car without human supervision.

The decisions made by the players were not the same all over the world: in Europe, saving the life of a baby is given more importance than that of an old man.

In Asia, just the opposite.

«If this world is becoming more and more global,

.

It is time to think about what ethics and what control we want to implement over our algorithms”,

, popularizer and part of the team of Spanish scientists who discovered the escutoid in 2018.

That name hides the last geometric shape described.

It has five sides on its bottom face and six on its top face, with curves and vertices on its sides.

Even the well-known presenter Stephen Colbert dedicated a monologue to him in his famous

on

: "I guess the discovery was made by the Fisher Price College of Art," he joked.

"Right now, mathematicians rule the world

," Grima agrees.

And he adds: «With mathematics we can achieve a more egalitarian world, trying to end the problems of poverty, with climate change and lack of food, with resistance to antibiotics, in the care of our elders... Mathematics they are currently the most powerful tool we have to save the world.”

Clara Grima, PhD in Mathematics and popularizer, with several colored scutoids in her hands.

For example, with mathematics applied to the development of Artificial Intelligence or data engineering.

And, above all, learning from the mistakes of the past:

«It is very dangerous as a society because the algorithms, which are the ones that already control many things and that are going to control more and more, are going to have sexist biases and are going to forget many sensitivities that have to do with women if women are not there. in that group that develops the algorithms, ”he warns.

“Mathematics is there for anything.

that we as humans could not yet”, completes Grima.

And she says: "Knowing mathematics is having superpowers."

This 'superheroine' is one of the many testimonials that shape Buscando Vocations.

With this project, the Universidad Europea aims to help find benchmarks for success.

These protagonists show their own vital paths.

Stories of struggle, of achievements, on some occasions also of failures and of personal and professional learning, which inspire both those who are starting out and those who want to continue progressing and, why not, also those who are looking for a new path.

In Buscando Vocaciones they can find the way to

, just as the protagonists of the videos shape the society that awaits us all.

It is not the first mathematician to go through the project.

Other recognized names in this discipline, such as the scientific popularizer Enrique Gracián, have recalled in Buscando Vocaciones that mathematicians

.

And not only that, they also have the ability to influence and define the future, as stated by Xavier Ros-Oton, the most cited young mathematician in the world.

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