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A while back some academics at MIT designed some surveys for probing what tradeoffs humans would make if they had a chance to decide between bad outcomes in a v
by natch 9y ago
A while back some academics at MIT designed some surveys for probing what tradeoffs humans would make if they had a chance to decide between bad outcomes in a vehicle fatality incident.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/542626/why-self-driving-cars-must-be-programmed-to-kill/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/542626/why-self-driving-c...
This shows that the menu of ethical dilemmas posed at that time was not complete.
In addition to "should I veer left, avoiding the grandmother and grandfather couple, but killing the pregnant mother" the survey questions should have also included some questions like "should I brake hard to avoid killing the homeless person detected with 40% probability, or should I assume the detection is a false positive, in order to maintain a smooth ride of luxurious comfort for the occupants?"