I worry a bit about self-driving vehicles and the “trolley conundrum.”
They will have to have thousands (millions?) of “no win” scenarios and run them through the AI engine to see how it discerns.
Will Smith’s character in “I Robot” (which no doubt had the Good Doctor turning in his grave for the abuse of the Laws AND his characters) — did have a good point. We, as humans, value children over adults for the most part. The robot’s differential engine used exclusively probability of survival.
And probably the robot used probability to choose. The probability of saving the girl looked low. One thing that bothered me is all his hand wringing. I may have felt sadness about the little girl but I would have been happy to be alive instead of viirtue signaling my mock outrage all over the place.
“trolley conundrum.”
Don’t hit that switch. Let it crash.