Re:Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines
by electriclizard on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @06:29PM
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Would a machine solving the trolly problem on whether to hit the wall vs some cyclists ever choose to hit the wall in a way that damages the driver, bounces into the people and damages some of the people, but kills no one?
I have seen accidents where a truck driver drives partially off the road to slow down his truck and minimize damage, but does not go entirely off it because that would kill him.
Re:Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines
by belter on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:59AM
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"...Using trolley-style problems in the context of autonomous vehicles as a case study, I argue
(1) that this is a misapplication of philosophical thought experiments because
(2) it fails to appreciate the purpose of moral dilemmas, and
(3) this has potentially catastrophic consequences; however,
(4) there are uses of moral dilemmas in machine ethics that are appropriate and the novel situations that arise in a machine-learning context can shed some light on philosophical work in ethics..."
I have seen accidents where a truck driver drives partially off the road to slow down his truck and minimize damage, but does not go entirely off it because that would kill him.
(1) that this is a misapplication of philosophical thought experiments because
(2) it fails to appreciate the purpose of moral dilemmas, and
(3) this has potentially catastrophic consequences; however,
(4) there are uses of moral dilemmas in machine ethics that are appropriate and the novel situations that arise in a machine-learning context can shed some light on philosophical work in ethics..."