Le tre leggi della robotica di Isaac Asimov applicate ai dilemmi etico-algoritmici del driverless car
Of cats and cliffs: the ethical dilemmas of the driverless car <https://theconversation.com/of-cats-and-cliffs-the-ethical-dilemmas-of-the-d...> We make decisions every day based on risk – perhaps running across a road to catch a bus if the road is quiet, but not if it’s busy. Sometimes these decisions must be made in an instant, in the face of dire circumstances: a child runs out in front of your car, but there are other dangers to either side, say a cat and a cliff. How do you decide? Do you risk your own safety to protect that of others? Now that self-driving cars are here and with no quick or sure way of overriding the controls – or even none at all – car manufacturers are faced with an algorithmic ethical dilemma. On-board computers in cars are already parking for us, driving on cruise control, and could take control in safety-critical situations. But that means they will be faced with the difficult choices that sometimes face humans. How to programme a computer’s ethical calculus? -Calculate the lowest number of injuries for each possible outcome, and take that route. Every living instance would be treated the same. -Calculate the lowest number of injuries for children for each possible outcome, and take that route. -Allocate values of 10 for each human, four for a cat, two for a dog, and one for a horse. Then calculate the total score for each in the impact, and take the route with the lowest score. So a big group of dogs would rank more highly than two cats, and the car would react to save the dogs. [...] Then there are the legal issues. What if a car could have intervened to save lives but didn’t? Or if it ran people down deliberately based on its ethical calculus? Alberto
Ne parliamo alla conferenza "Social Implications Of Artificial Intelligence" a Seul la prossima settimana dove sono keynote speaker. http://siaiconference.com/ Ci sarà lo streaming e gli interventi saranno anche registrati e messi successivamente online. David Orban "What is the question that I should be asking?" twitter, linkedin, etc: davidorban On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Alberto Cammozzo <ac+nexa@zeromx.net> wrote:
Of cats and cliffs: the ethical dilemmas of the driverless car
< https://theconversation.com/of-cats-and-cliffs-the-ethical-dilemmas-of-the-d...
We make decisions every day based on risk – perhaps running across a road to catch a bus if the road is quiet, but not if it’s busy. Sometimes these decisions must be made in an instant, in the face of dire circumstances: a child runs out in front of your car, but there are other dangers to either side, say a cat and a cliff. How do you decide? Do you risk your own safety to protect that of others?
Now that self-driving cars are here and with no quick or sure way of overriding the controls – or even none at all – car manufacturers are faced with an algorithmic ethical dilemma. On-board computers in cars are already parking for us, driving on cruise control, and could take control in safety-critical situations. But that means they will be faced with the difficult choices that sometimes face humans.
How to programme a computer’s ethical calculus?
-Calculate the lowest number of injuries for each possible outcome, and take that route. Every living instance would be treated the same. -Calculate the lowest number of injuries for children for each possible outcome, and take that route. -Allocate values of 10 for each human, four for a cat, two for a dog, and one for a horse. Then calculate the total score for each in the impact, and take the route with the lowest score. So a big group of dogs would rank more highly than two cats, and the car would react to save the dogs.
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Then there are the legal issues. What if a car could have intervened to save lives but didn’t? Or if it ran people down deliberately based on its ethical calculus?
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