The driving force of morality
(02/14/17 6:29am)
I recently attended a talk given by Dr. Sinnott-Armstrong about how we program morality into artificial intelligence. The main example given was self-driving cars, and the ethical dilemma prevalent in deciding whose lives take precedence in an emergency situation—the driver and other passengers in the car, or pedestrians and people in other cars. The conversation was especially relevant given that Mercedes, one of two companies currently developing a self-driving car, recently announced that their cars would be programmed to value the lives of the passengers inside the car over the lives of anyone else.