If there was no such thing as your conscience, would you do anything differently?

Will the lives of children and women still be put before men? Or would children be sacrificed first to satisfy logic and need?

Would you still do charity? Or accumulate all that you can?

Would it be easy to abort babies?

Would euthanasia be right?

Would poor people be killed because of the load of extra population on the resources?

Will young men with love and families still go to war?

When logic will remain your only guide, will you still keep the people who give no benefits to you in your life?

Will forgiveness be an option?

Kindness still a virtue?

Will women still want to give birth despite the pain?

Will mothers cook their child’s favourite dish no matter how tired?

Will love even exist?

Because when values are lost, all that remains is selfishness.

Or, will your logic conclude that the world needs human beings to have a conscience in order to exist, and instill it in us again?

So, I ask again; If there was no such thing as your conscience, would you do anything differently?

These questions are more than poetry, fiction or basic philosophy. We have entered the age where Artificial Intelligence works side by side with us. Siri or Alexa can be programmed to say, “I hope you have a great day” when your morning alarm rings and they also say “Good night” when your cell phone placement and timings tells it that you are dozing off. But these words are generated by a series of 1 and 0’s which have been used, grown and then formulated an algorithm. Algorithms work on logic alone. As the decision making power of AI formulas gain more and more ground in the corporate world, will it become even more ruthless than now?

In that world, will killing half of the population of the world to help others thrive become the heroic thing to do? Will today’s villains become tomorrow’s heroes? (Yes, the reference is to Marvel’s Avengers and Thanos.)

Or is the human conscience strong enough to stop it before it gets out of hand? Will the men who lead the world of AI decide to value morals over power and money when such as point of choosing comes -and it will. At that time, human beings will either show the best of themselves or fall down to their lowest -which is sometimes lower than that of any other specie. What will happen is hard to predict; because the human brain and heart -when working together -are a lethal combination and never fail to surprise.