Artificial Intelligence Flashcards
May 2016 crash
First person killed - travelling in auto-pilot mode
- Tesla did not assume responsibility
March 2018
First pedestrian killed
Giuseppe Contissa
Self-driving cars should be equipped with an ‘ethical knob’
Jan Gogoll
Everyone’s cars should have the same ethical settings
Advantage of giving people a degree of choice for moral settings?
Can hold them responsible for the outcomes more easily
Utilitarian ethics
Maximising overall happiness
Kantian ethics
Applying a basic set of principles to serve as universal laws
Virtue ethics
Fully realising a basic set of virtues
Contractualistic ethics
Formulating guidelines people would be willing to adopt
Gurney’s theory
Computer equipped to make utilitarian calculations might take into account that people prefer to drive in cars that save themselves, so therefore if more people use cars –> overall # deaths decrease –> overall maximum happiness
Hevelke and Nida Rumelin - what to do since it’s unfair to hold drivers responsible
Unfair to hold drivers responsible
- Unfair moral luck
- Should instead hold users collectively responsible for the risks they introduce as a group into society (NB retribution gap)
Can agency be transferred to a car?
Mindell: Always supervised by humans to some degree
- Can’t act on beliefs and desires
‘Mixed traffic argument’
People have a duty to switch to the safer alternative, or use added safety precautions e.g. speed limiters and alcohol locks
NZ car regulations (2)
LTA s 22: Driver must stop and give assistance
Land Transport Rule: Drivers must not exceed speed limits
- Also offences such as ‘operate’
What is AI? (Michael Scherer)
Machines that are capable of performing tasks that, if performed by a human, would be said to require intelligence
Four categories of AI
Thinking humanely, acting humanely, thinking rationally, acting rationally