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At some point we're going to have an entirely new field of study specifically for this situation. I propose the name "Quantitative Philosophy". The goal is to
by tynpeddler 7y ago
At some point we're going to have an entirely new field of study specifically for this situation. I propose the name "Quantitative Philosophy". The goal is to merge AI research, philosophy and law to determine the "correct" choice in complicated situations when the agent of action has time to consider all possibilities.
Without a by-in from academia, law, legislatures and society as a whole, any action Mercedes takes in this situation will get them in trouble. In addition, we could either see premature or delayed adoption of AI.
- eindiran 7y agoEthics already has a lot of very "quantitative" problems it deals with: for example, see all the variants of the trolley problem where there is a concrete number of individuals to save/kill on each track [0]. Or Hardin's lifeboat [1]. Further, CS is not the first quantitative discipline to need to deal with ethical problems attached to hard numbers of human lives. For example, Medical ethics deals this problem with eg triage in emergencies and engineering ethics has had to deal with it for as long as people have been building things. So there is a lot of prior art to be built on. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem [1] http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_lifeboat_ethics_case_against_helping_poor.html http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_lifeboat_et...
- blackflame 7y agoThere is no correct choice and even if there were, you could never prove that the correct choice was made because maybe there was another choice that could have saved more people.
- robdachshund 7y agoThey have that, it's called "moral relativism"