Does AI Ethics Need to be More Inclusive?
Last week, MIT Media Lab researchers published results from its global survey on autonomous driving ethics. The survey, dubbed the “Moral Machine experiment”,…
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We Need To Work Harder To Make Software Engineering More Ethical
"My fellow Forbes contributor Patrick Lin has long been involved in these discussions. He's the Director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at Cal…
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Morality, ethics of a self-driving car: Who decides who lives, dies?
"“These ethical problems are not just theoretical,” said Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State Un…
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Is it ethical for these researchers to pay hackers for access to malware before it’s unleashed?
"That is, what if everyone, not just these researchers, gave $22,500 to the Shadow Brokers? Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor at California Polytechnic S…
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Should a driverless car kill the kid or the retiree?
"“We mean for that to happen. This premeditation is the difference between manslaughter and murder, a much more serious offense,” wrote Patrick Lin, direct…
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Elon Musk, billionaire tech idealist and space entrepreneur
"“Elon Musk is a great visionary and a great inventor, and you have to admire his ambition and his moxie,” says Patrick Lin, philosophy professor and head…
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Top Safety Official Doesn’t Trust Automakers to Teach Ethics to Self-Driving Cars
"Ryan Calo, an expert on robotics law at the University of Washington, is skeptical that it’s possible to translate the so-far theoretical ethical discussi…
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Your Self-Driving Car Will Be Programmed to Kill You—Deal With It
"Patrick Lin, the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, says we humans are a fickle lot, and that we…
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Self-Driving Cars Will Teach Themselves to Save Lives—But Also Take Them
“With Go or chess or Space Invaders, the goal is to win, and we know what winning looks like,” says Lin. “But in ethical decision-making, there is no clear goal…
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Modern variations on the 'Trolley Problem' meme
"The article then paraphrases philosophy professor Patrick Lin, whose work at Cal Poly focuses in part on the ethics of driverless cars. According to Lin,…
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The Tricky Ethics of Living Longer
"“We can't cherry-pick the costs or savings to focus on,” says Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic…
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In An Accident, Who Will A Driverless Car Be Programmed To Kill?
"These ethical programming decisions will be made as a matter of company policy, and buyers may find themselves forced to buy into the brand whose ethics m…