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> And well, he's right. Once you have programmed the car, it will respond deterministically to inputs. This is true, but that doesn't mean that the response is
by chrisfosterelli 11y ago
> And well, he's right. Once you have programmed the car, it will respond deterministically to inputs.
This is true, but that doesn't mean that the response is based on the car making moral decisions about the value of the human lives involved.
As the commenters below mentioned, the technology doesn't even exist at this point to do anything other than avoid the object in front of you and try not to crash while doing it. Sometimes this may result in a dead pedestrian and sometimes this may result in a dead occupant. That isn't the car making a moral judgement, it's just collision avoidance.
- coldtea 11y agoIt doesn't have to be a moral judgement on behalf of the car -- after all it's just running a collision avoidance algorithm. But the human designers of the "collision avoidance" algorithm will design it with moral judgements in mind. E.g. what to do when face recognition shows 10 kids in from of you and you have 1 passenger in the car that if you turn you'll avoid hitting them but risk his life.