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How Ethically Can Artificial Intelligence Think?

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Driverless cars and mobility-as-a-service is expected to grow exponentially in the next 30 years but how will programmers today determine the best way to program A.I. to make the ethical decisions that humans make every day when behind the wheel? By 2050, driverless cars and mobility as a service will be estimated to grow to $7 trillion all across the world. From 2035 to 2045 it's expected that consumers will regain up to 250 million hours of free time that otherwise would be spent on driving. But if people are no longer behind the wheel, how will A.I. make those decisions that we make every time we are on the road? And even if it can decide these decisions, can they do it in an ethically acceptable way? "Driverless cars'must decide quickly, with incomplete information, in situations that programmers often will not have considered, using ethics that must be encoded all too literally" said Noah J. Goodall, the Senior Research at the Virginia Transportation Research Council.