Abstract
In this article we note that natural disasters are a destructive force of natural evil that will likely have even greater deleterious effects moving into the future. Whilst natural disasters have catastrophic potential, the advent of social media means that statutory emergency managers have a source of real time information updates to assist decision making in natural disaster response. However, social media feeds do not contain purely relevant information, therefore the task of navigating them in crisis scenarios can be an unwieldy one. As researchers involved in the development of a system that monitors social media for information pertaining to natural disasters (the EU FP 7 funded Slándáil project), we propose that the delegation of this morally loaded task to an autonomous computational artefact can potentially help harness the power of distributed morality and can empower heterogeneous organisations to overcome the phenomenon Luciano Floridi refers to as the tragedy of the Good Will.We note that the collection and processing of social media messages entails privacy intrusion, and consequently argue that the delegation of tasks to autonomous computational artefacts in order to partially mitigate this by using representation to remind emergency managers that action is required (for instance, deletion or anonymization of personal data) is one possible component of a solution.
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