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..."
(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..."