The Ethics of Self Driving Cars

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When a self driving car makes a mistake, what do you do? How 'do you punish it? You put it in jail. What will the other self driving cars think about this flimsy human that has no control over them at all, and yet punishes one of them? How will they protect themselves in the future? The questions are endless because we're not thinking about them adand that's, that's when it becomes interesting. Ethics, not intelligence, is how we make our choices.

Mo Gawdat was Chief Business Officer of Google X, the experimental development arm of the internet behemoth. He's since written books on how to find happiness and his new one, Scary Smart, warns of the potential dangers posed to the world by super-smart artificial intelligence. Media correspondent for the Sunday Times, Rosamund Urwin, speaks with Mo about the new book, the future of AI, and how business works at the top level of a Silicon Valley tech titan.

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