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#8 — Ask Me Anything 1

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Do You Want a Self Driving Car That Preferentially Avoids People of Color?

Any self driving car needs some algorithm by which to rank order bad outcomes. Do you want a car that is unbiased with respect to the age and size of people, or the color of their skin? Would you like a car that was more likely to run over white people than people of color? I don't think so. Who is going to want to engineer into this thing the values of theocracy? You know, traditional ligious authoritarianism. That's what we're talking about here.

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