Why Ethics Matters for Autonomous Cars

By P. Lin. 2016

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If motor vehicles are to be truly autonomous and able to operate responsibly on our roads, they will need to replicate—or do better than—the human decision-making process. But some decisions are more than just a mechanical application of traffic laws and plotting a safe path. They seem to require a sense of ethics, and this is a notoriously difficult capability to reduce into algorithms for a computer to follow.

Subfields: Philosophy

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From ‘automation’ to ‘autonomy’: the importance of trust repair in human–machine interaction (2018, neutral): “This legal question might have human factors implications in the design of autonomous systems (Bonnefon, Shar iff , and Rahwan 2016; Goodall 2014; Lin 2016).”
Social choice ethics in artificial intelligence (2017, background): “decide which dangerous collision to have (Lin 2016).”
Governing autonomous vehicles: emerging responses for safety, liability, privacy, cybersecurity, and industry risks (2018, background): “AVs are also referred to as driverless vehicles, as they are expected to operate safely without supervision and in all environments (Lin, 2016).”
Away from Trolley Problems and Toward Risk Management (2016, background): “Scientific literature on vehicle automation uses similar examples (Goodall 2014; Lin 2015; Millar 2014; Sandberg and Bradshaw-Martin 2013; Terken 2015).”
Ethics of artificial intelligence and robotics (2020, background): “What might be more interesting is when to break the rules, e.g. to avoid an accident (Lin 2015), but again this seems to be more a case of applying standard considerations for driving (rules vs. utility) to the case of autonomous vehicles.”
What About Applied Fairness? (2018, background): “Even before this sad death, many have been debating the trolley car problem and arguing that a solution is needed for deployment (Achenbach, 2015; Corﬁeld, 2017; Lin, 2016; Goodall, 2016).”
Impossibility and Uncertainty Theorems in AI Value Alignment (or why your AGI should not have a utility function) (2018, background): “Conversations about the safety of self-driving cars often turn into discussion of “trolley problems”, where the vehicle must make a decision between several differently disastrous outcomes (Goodall 2014; Riek and Howard 2014; Belay 2015; Nyholm and Smids 2016; Bonnefon, Shariff, and Rahwan 2015; Lin”