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DO WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT AN ETHICS INTO AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Wojciech Jerzy BOBER1
Impact of New Technologies
Język publikacji: angielski
Artykuł w czasopiśmie
Transformacje Nr 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Data publikacji: 30 listopada 2017r.
Słowa kluczowe: autonomous vehicles, AI, moral rules, ethics, ethics of technology
Streszczenie Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are thought to be one of major solutions to the problem of traffic-related deaths (ca 1.25 million people worldwide per year). Unfortunately, this kind of technology is not expected to eliminate them completely. Therefore, researchers start to put questions about rules, including moral ones, that should govern the behaviour of an AV in face of emergency. At least three moral principles have been proposed: utilitarian principle, principle taking the security of passenger(s) of a given car as most important as well as the principle that I would call “legality first principle”, according to which life of those obeying legal rules should be preserved in the first place. Faced with this plurality, we have to choose between these rules. The task is demanding since (1) we are not univocally decided about choosing moral rules and (2) the technology is developed in such a way that enforcing strict rules of that kind may disable at least some of its advantages. Therefore, a more pragmatic approach is proposed consisting in focusing on development of future infrastructure for AVs as well as of advanced means to save human lives rather than imposing strict rules on machines themselves.
Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw
E-mail: jwbober@gmail.com