
42. Probability & moral responsibility with Olivia Gambelin
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The Importance of Moral Responsibility in Self-Driving Cars
I was concentrating on the moral responsibility aspect. I wasn't, per se, concentrating on the technological side. As the car gets better and better at driving, the more responsibility decreases as well. When a self-driving car runs over the grandmother, there is this more responsibility gap. We have to blame someone for that death, but it's not clear who you blame. It's laid in a sense of justice to be carried out. That's the intuition. But the probability intuition essentially says, well, that doesn't matter. We'll just make the car so perfect at driving. So as they get better and better,. the more responsibility gap will subsequently imperilably boost as well.
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