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Welcome Our New A.I. Overlords

Imaginary Worlds

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The Future of Driverless Cars

The programming in these robot cars reflects science fiction or at least the three laws of robotics that run through Isaac Asimov's stories like Bicentennial Man. A robot must cheerfully go into self-destruction to save a human life. But in the real world, a robot car won't have such clear moral choices. Eric worries that sharing the road with these robots could bring out the worst in us.

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