Interesting moral dilemma

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So I'm very interested in Ai, machine intelligence and how bias, preferences, and morality play in designing autonomous systems. A friend of mine shared this project with me and I wanted to see where you guys fell on the spectrum.

The scenario:

A self-driving car has brake failure. What should the car do?

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ni8joJNc3m001 · Accepted Answer

This was actually pretty hard. In a life or death situation, I'm torn. The image you shared is kinda wild but valid. Do you save the life of 1 person or 3? I think most people would say, save 3 lives.

But then if the question is, you can only have 3 of 4 lives, do you value the lives of 2 homeless people more than say 1 avg income or wealthy person (as the image suggests)?

Now it gets especially gut wrenching and sticky and the biases people have are in full effect.

Do you know what others responded?

j52Z3Hi3AQybnX12Bd · Answer

It should move to the right. People crossing the road are supposed to watch for traffic and make the judgement about when it is safe to cross (they also appear to be crossing *against the light* - in my opinion, the best way to solve these issues with self-driving cars is to make them act in a way that's consistent with the rules of the road. No human driver would be expected to sacrifice their own lives for someone in the road when they shouldn't be, so why would a self driving car be expected to kill its occupants?
Finally, and arguably most importantly for people trying to market these products, nobody's going to buy or ride in a car that might decide their life is worth less than someone else's; I certainly never would.

Also, pedestrian safety standards mean that they are more likely to survive such an accident than the occupants are to survive an impact with a solid object

f23knLKHbwp0 · Answer

Are there no options to drive into the sidewall? My biggest objective here would be to stop the vehicle, period. Assuming loss of life is inevitable, the next thing I'd consider is collateral damage which could result in more loss of life.

nuCnijwcI8kchb · Answer

Ohhhh we did something like this in IEEE one time when we had a guest speaker on campus. It was super hard trying to explain to the group why you chose what you chose without coming off as an apathetic or inconsiderate person. It made me think about my choices and the talk was fascinating.

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