People Would Rather a Self-Driving Car Kill a Criminal Than a Dog

[rangerrebew]

People Would Rather a Self-Driving Car Kill a Criminal Than a Dog

16 hours ago__Kristin Houser__Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence

Snap Decisions

On first glance, a site that collects people’s opinions about whose life an autonomous car should favor doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. But look closer, and you’ll catch a glimpse of humanity’s dark side.

The Moral Machine is an online survey designed by MIT researchers to gauge how the public would want an autonomous car to behave in a scenario in which someone has to die. It asks questions like: “If an autonomous car has to choose between killing a man or a woman, who should it kill? What if the woman is elderly but the man is young?”

Essentially, it’s a 21st century update on the Trolley Problem, an ethical thought experiment no doubt permanently etched into the mind of anyone who’s seen the second season of “The Good Place.”
Ethical Dilemma

https://futurism.com/the-byte/moral-machine-self-driving-car

[Dexter]

Despite the moral dilemmas self driving cars are going to reduce road fatalities dramatically. There is no stopping this technology. One day every vehicle on the road will be run by a computer, and at that point very few people will die from collisions. The fact that we're even having this conversation demonstrates how much more capable than humans AI is/will be. It has so much more control that it will have to make snap decisions about who lives or dies in an almost instant catastrophe. At some point AI might have to choose between an old lady and a young man? Well, that's rough, but without the AI they both would have died most likely.

[GtHawk]

Despite the moral dilemmas self driving cars are going to reduce road fatalities dramatically. There is no stopping this technology. One day every vehicle on the road will be run by a computer, and at that point very few people will die from collisions. The fact that we're even having this conversation demonstrates how much more capable than humans AI is/will be. It has so much more control that it will have to make snap decisions about who lives or dies in an almost instant catastrophe. At some point AI might have to choose between an old lady and a young man? Well, that's rough, but without the AI they both would have died most likely.

Now why does your post bring to mind a story from one my favorite authors, Issac Asimov.

https://www.e-reading.club/chapter.php/82060/20/Isaac_Asimovs_Worlds_of_Science_Fiction._Book_9__Robots.html