Please stop worrying that driverless cars would run over kids
I mean it.Because a few days ago I saw a discussion on Twitter (*) that ran more or less like this: The "enormous moral issues" described in that Twitter thread are one instance of the "thought experiment in ethics" known as "Trolley Problem", also defined, by the source for the image above, "the Internet's Most Philosophical Meme": The problem is that, when speaking of driverless cars, the whole "trolley problem" approach consists, in a very non-negligible part, of barking up the wrong tree. The problem is not that the "moral issues that can never be understood by an AI" are not enormous. "how can we keep buying and using PRIVATE, or even shared, driverless cars in the SAME cities as today? The same cities that every serious forecast says will host a larger percentage of human population every year?" That is not a question, or a problem, worth of high priority.
Oct-17-2019, 09:31:56 GMT
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