Questão nº 19
Questão de Língua Inglesa · FGV DATAPREV 2024 (nº 19)
Use the following TEXT to answer the next six questions.
Robot Code of Ethics to Prevent Android Abuse and Protect Humans.
The government of South Korea is drawing up a code of ethics to prevent human abuse of robots—and vice versa.
The so-called Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for robotics users and manufacturers, as well as guidelines on ethical standards to be programmed into robots, South Korea's Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy announced last week.
"The move anticipates the day when robots, particularly intelligent service robots, could become a part of daily life as greater technological advancements are made", the ministry said in a statement.
A five-member task force that includes futurists and a science-fiction writer began work on the charter last November.
Gianmarco Veruggio of the School of Robotics in Genoa, Italy, is recognized as a leading authority on roboethics. "Robotics is a new science with a manifold of applications that can assist humans and solve many, many problems", he said.
"However, as in every field of science and technology, sensitive areas open up, and it is the specific responsibility of the scientists who work in this field to face this new array of social and ethical problems."
Abusing Robots
South Korea boasts one of the world's most high-tech societies. The country's Ministry of Information and Communication is working on plans to put a robot in every South Korean household by 2020.
The new charter is part of an effort to establish ground rules for human interaction with robots in the future. "Imagine if some people treat androids as if the machines were their wives", Park Hye-Young of the ministry's robot team told the AFP news agency.
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Based on the title and the two sentences below it, choose the option that summarizes the author’s main idea in TEXT.
- AThe standard procedure created by the South Korean government just protects the robots and forgets human abuse.
- BIt is clear that the South Korean government is worried about the abuse of humans whenever using robots.
- CThe South Korean government is urging humans to avoid abusing robots when they are making use of them.
- DThe author is only concerned about humans. Whereas the South Korean government is afraid of the use of robots by humans.
- ETEXT approaches the ethics issue concerning the use of robots. In fact, the South Korean government is developing an ethics code to prevent the abuse of not only robots but also protect humans. (alternativa correta)
Resposta comentada
Gabarito Alternativa E
O conceito-chave para responder a esta questão é identificar a ideia principal do texto, focando especificamente no título e nas duas primeiras frases. A ideia principal deve ser uma síntese que abranja todos os pontos cruciais mencionados nessas partes, sem adicionar informações novas ou omitir detalhes importantes.
(A) Incorreta: A alternativa está errada porque o título ("and Protect Humans") e a primeira frase ("—and vice versa") explicitamente indicam que a proteção se estende também aos humanos, não apenas aos robôs.
(B) Incorreta: Embora o governo sul-coreano esteja preocupado com o abuso de humanos, essa alternativa é incompleta. A ideia principal, conforme o título e a primeira frase, é uma preocupação dupla: proteger robôs e humanos.
(C) Incorreta: Esta alternativa foca apenas em um lado da questão (humanos evitando abusar de robôs), ignorando a outra parte crucial da ideia principal: a proteção dos humanos contra o abuso dos robôs (o "vice versa").
(D) Incorreta: A primeira parte ("The author is only concerned about humans") está errada, pois o título, que representa a introdução do autor, menciona explicitamente a prevenção do abuso de robôs. A segunda parte também é uma interpretação incompleta e ligeiramente distorcida da preocupação do governo.
(E) Correta: Esta alternativa resume perfeitamente a ideia principal. O texto aborda a questão ética no uso de robôs, e o governo sul-coreano está desenvolvendo um código de ética para prevenir o abuso de robôs (conforme "Prevent Android Abuse") e proteger humanos (conforme "Protect Humans" e "vice versa"), abrangendo ambos os lados da interação.
Fonte: FGV DATAPREV 2024 Conhecimentos Comuns (Nível Médio - Segurança e Enfermagem do Trabalho) (Caderno Tipo 1). Reproduzida para fins de estudo.