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I agree, but whatever algorithm the car makes in that situation will be implicitly endorsing one or more ethical philosophies, meaning people who subscribe to a
by smallnamespace 10y ago
I agree, but whatever algorithm the car makes in that situation will be implicitly endorsing one or more ethical philosophies, meaning people who subscribe to a different one will have cause to object.
- eyelidlessness 10y agoWhich is why we should not enable machines to make ethical decisions.
- smallnamespace 10y agoSo we shouldn't make self-driving cars?
- eyelidlessness 10y agoYes, we shouldn't make self-driving cars.
- AstralStorm 10y agoInstead let countless drivers kill pedestrians if such cars turn out to be safer to everyone around? The ethics of this escapes me. It is not a nuclear warhead or a biological weapon. We can decide utility of self driving cars either pre- or post-factum, but not given no data.
- eyelidlessness 10y agoCars have very limited utility that can't be better solved with mass transit. Individual vehicles are grossly inefficient for basically every scenario except rural transport. Replacing those uses would nearly eliminate auto accidents and have a ton of other benefits as well.