Thought experiment: Imagine you are 1) riding in a driverless car, 2)

Thought experiment:

Imagine you are 1) riding in a driverless car, 2) there are a lot of people around you, and 3) you’re about to crash.

How does the car decide who dies in the car crash?

http://news.mit.edu/2018/how-autonomous-vehicles-programmed-1024

If you’re familiar with the trolley-problem in philosophy, it’s quite similar. Do you save one person you know or save five people you don’t know?

But this time, does the car save its occupants, the baby in the stroller, or the crowd of people?

Automation and artificial intelligence has a lot of unsolved ethical challenges ahead.

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