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Uber wants to resume self-driving car tests on public roads
"Although the report covered all the main bases, Uber should have gone even further given its self-driving car killed Herzberg, said Bryant Walker Smith, a…
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US midterms: Democrats look to big data to beat Trump
"To Mr McLaughlin, targeting people by values such as “equality” or “tradition” is fine, but profiling their emotional state is not. As AI improves, he bel…
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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Lawmaker wants Uber, Lyft regulations to be reviewed for fairness
"The Transportation Network Companies Act (TNC) was passed in 2015. According to University of South Carolina Law Professor Bryant Walker Smith, who studie…
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In a crash, should self-driving cars save passengers or pedestrians? 2 million people weigh in
"“There is this gray space of decisions that are not wrong and not right,” said Patrick Lin, a philosopher at the California Polytechnic State University w…
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Global preferences for who to save in self-driving car crashes revealed
"“What happens with autonomous vehicles may set the tone for other AI and robotics, since they’re the first to be integrated into society at scale,” Patric…
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Engineering Supersoldiers: Boost in Lethality May Come From Within
"In the 2013 report, “Enhanced Warfighters: Risk, Ethics, and Policy,” Cal Poly San Luis Obispo professor Patrick Lin and others raised concerns about the…
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Survey Polls the World: Should a Self-Driving Car Save Passengers, or Kids in the Road?
"“The core problem, I think, is going to occur many times a day in the real world, just not in a crazy crash dilemma,” says Patrick Lin, a philosophy profe…
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Self-driving car dilemmas reveal that moral choices are not universal
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, is sceptical that the Moral Machine survey will have any practical u…
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As Ford makes driverless push in city, District seeks standards on safety, environment
"“D.C. currently has this authority. In the future, they might not,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South Car…
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Artificial intelligence conference explores darkside of technology with ‘threat to democracy’ conference
"The keynote speaker was Danielle Citron, Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law at the University of Maryland’s Francis King Carey School of Law. Citron…
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The Race Is On After Feds Pave Way for Driverless Trucks
"Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, allows that the document "concedes a lot to industry," but he adds that &q…