Should your robot driver kill you to save a child’s life?

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more importantly what if it's a racc00n? Car kills you for a fukin Racc00n?

have the car hit the breaks as best it can. Accidents happen now all the time.

I was literally reading through the thread and about to post this verbatim. Exactly my concern re: how it even distinguishes from animals that may have a similar build to a child ie: racc00n. To think the car could possibly end my life into a wall over that is unsettling.

I hear what you guys are saying but the thought experiment states that the computer/robot knows it's a child. Those are valid points but in this case the computer knows it's a child.

We are early on in the stages of machine learning, robot vision and artificial intelligence, but there are machines right now that can differentiate humans from other objects (just not very well).

The point is about deciding what you feel is ethical about the circumstances presented and why you feel that way. The author of the article states that it might be most ethical to have the machine default to the choice of the driver.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

more importantly what if it's a racc00n? Car kills you for a fukin Racc00n?

have the car hit the breaks as best it can. Accidents happen now all the time.

Harsh. Youre valuing a dead tree branch over a Racc00n? Calling PETA.

 

[CJ]

I hear what you guys are saying but the thought experiment states that the computer/robot knows it's a child. Those are valid points but in this case the computer knows it's a child.

We are early on in the stages of machine learning, robot vision and artificial intelligence, but there are machines right now that can differentiate humans from other objects (just not very well).

The point is about deciding what you feel is ethical about the circumstances presented and why you feel that way.

Understood, my mistake. If in this case the computer determines it's a child then I'd be inclined to agree with posts #38 and #40. I'm sure it'd be hard to feel that way if it was my child, but at the end of the day the car is following the rules of the road, where the pedestrian is unfortunately not. I think there would have to be some sort of benchmark setting for braking, even the best cars right now can only hit 0 from 60 mph in about 90 some odd feet, not that it would probably matter much in the listed scenario.

Will let this marinate some more as I could see myself feeling differently later.

 

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fukk no.


I paid the money... it's my robot... it's there to serve me.. not kill me for any reason.

that kid probably wasn't gonna be shyt anyway, my kids will be something one day -- they'd be heartbroken if i was killed by Mr. robot.

 

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will post later, good example of why Higher Learning is here on the coli.