The ethics of machine intelligence

How comfortable are you with hard decisions? If it affected you, how comfortable would you be with losing your agency and having someone else make the decision for you? What if that decision isn't made by a person but a machine? More than abstract questions, these are going to become as divisive a social issue as genetic manipulation. In many ways, they strike at the heart of what we believe makes us human. Let's play things forward a bit; sometime in the near future, a car's travelling from Chicago to New York.