What you say has merit, yet it sidesteps and ignores the deeper, more troubling issues: is it possible to go Asimov Three Laws of Robotics? Is it possible to sp

What you say has merit, yet it sidesteps and ignores the deeper, more troubling issues: is it possible to go Asimov Three Laws of Robotics? Is it possible to specify ethical and moral coding precisely, programmatically? That car example is just a stand-in for an entire class of ethical and moral dilemmas coming out of it. Let's look at it from a different angle. There is a hospital in Oregon who are trying to squeeze more profits, so much so that they induced doctors working there to unionize. The hospital promptly dropped their attempt at outsourcing. It won't be last attempt at this. As the pressure for profits increases, and as machine learning technology gets more advanced, there will come a point when it is the AI that makes the judgement call on who lives or dies. Who is going to program that? Are software engineers necessarily all that better in creating systems that computes the optimal outcome that includes both ethics and morals, than say, lawmakers or philosophers? Are you really OK with having moral choices taken out of your hand and given to a computer, assuming that whomever wrote the code actually knew what they were doing and didn't make mistakes? From this frame, what you are suggesting is that a properly designed computer is better at making moral and ethical judgements than humans.