As driverless cars become more independent, they will
eventually face unpredictable situations where ethical decisions of
life-or-death need to be made. Imagine a child chasing a basketball onto a road
with an incoming driverless vehicle. An automated sharp swerve to avoid the
child will endanger the passengers, but hitting the child is also wrong. Who will be responsible for a mistake made?
The programmer? The engineering team? The manufacturer? We can’t imprison or
fine a car no matter how smart it is! I believe that artificial intelligence is
highly beneficial, but it requires us to change our world. Having self-driving
cars on the road must be accompanied by new branches in law, policymaking, and
ethics. Just like Postman said in 1998, “Technological change is not additive,
it is ecological.”[1] We don’t just have the world and artificial intelligence.
We have a new world.
1. Postman, Neil. "Five things we
need to know about technological change." Retrieved December 1
(1998): 2003.
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