
Self-driving Cars and the Apocalypse | Ryan Jenkins (with Stephen Kershnar)
Brain in a Vat
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The Unacceptable Consequences of Overrides in the Market
I was wondering how we deal with the human driver in these cases, right? So you wouldn't expect the human driver to drive into a pile on to save people in the road coming ahead. And so I'm not sure we should expect the AR to do it either. It's going to end up having disparate impacts on poor people. The algorithm doesn't say that we should prioritize the lives of the rich over the poor. But if you extend people kind of freedom and you project out that way, there might be ways that is going to be more problematic.
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