The Ethics Behind Driverless Cars
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Imagine yourself in the future for a moment riding in a driverless car. You see 10 pedestrians stroll into the street just a few yards ahead…
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Would You Pull the Trolley Switch? Does it Matter?
"Gerdes has been working with a philosophy professor, Patrick Lin, to make ethical thinking a key part of his team’s design process. Lin, who teaches at Ca…
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Driverless cars must learn to take ethical route
“Even if it’s a rare problem, autonomous car manufacturers still need to specify some action [in the event of an unavoidable crash], and the wrong one could lea…
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Programming how self-driving cars handle dilemmas is a challenge
"“This is one of the most profoundly serious decisions we can make. Program a machine that can foreseeably lead to someone’s death,” Lin said. “When we mak…
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Navigating the roadblocks
"“For the trucking industry, the risk is magnified: we’re no longer talking about two-tonne vehicles of steel and glass, but up to 40-tonne vehicles that m…
Introduction to Astronaut Bioethics
Cross-posted by Slate. By Patrick Lin and Keith Abney Disaster can happen at any moment in space exploration. “A good rule for rocket experimenters to follow…
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10 Horrifying Technologies That Should Never Be Allowed To Exist
"The idea that technology is neutral or amoral is a myth that needs to be dispelled. The designer can imbue ethics into the creation, even if the artifact…
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The Ethics of Saving Lives With Autonomous Cars Are Far Murkier Than You Think
"But, wait. We should also factor in the many more lives that would be spared. A good consequentialist would look at this bigger picture and argue that as…
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The Ethics of Saving Lives With Autonomous Cars Are Far Murkier Than You Think
Cross-posted from Wired. If you don’t listen to Google’s robot car, it will yell at you. I’m not kidding: I learned that on my test-drive at a Stanford confere…
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Robot ethics book released by MIT Press
I am pleased to announce that our edited volume Robot Ethics: The Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics has now been released by MIT Press. The preface a…
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My CIA briefing on robot ethics
From The Atlantic: Robots are replacing humans on the battlefield--but could they also be used to interrogate and torture suspects? This would avoid a serious…
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Robot Ethics: A Crash Course
Here's a preview of my forthcoming paper on robot ethics (with co-authors Keith Abney and George Bekey) in Artificial Intelligence journal, one of the best…