One of the most debatable issues about the ethics of AI is the notorious car problem. We’re going to get what we can reveal.
The logical position to start is to explain what the challenge of the tank is.
It turns out to be an ethically stimulating experiment dating back to the early 20th century. As such, the subject has been around for some time and, more recently, has sometimes been linked to the advent of self-driving cars.
In short, you think a car is going down the tracks and there’s a fork in front. If the car continues in its current course, unfortunately, there is someone stuck on the tracks farther away and they will be crushed and killed.
You are next to a transfer that will allow you to redirect the cart to the fork track and thus kill the person.
Presumably, of course, you would invoke the turning point.
But there’s a horrible twist, namely that the forked track also has someone tangled in it and, when you hijack the wagon, kill that user.
This is one of the dead-end situations.
Whatever you choose, he’s going to be killed.
You may be tempted to say you don’t have to make a decision so you can get around the whole thing.
Not really, because by doing nothing, you necessarily “agree” to kill the user who is on the direct path. You can’t help your guilt by shrugging up and choosing to do nothing, but you’re inextricably connected to the situation.
Given this initial configuration of the cart challenge as a loser with a user interested in their selection of any of the options, this does not in particular cause a moral dilemma, since unfortunately each result is the same.
The query is changed in a variety of tactics to see how you can react to a more ethically problematic situation.
For example, think that you should discern that the direct track has a child, while the forked track has an adult.
And now?
Well, you can check to justify the transfer so that the cart forks on the track with the adult, which makes it logical that the adult has already lived a very extensive component of his life, while the child is only at the beginning of his life and perhaps deserve to have the possibility of a longer life.
How does that sound to you?
Some buy into it, some do not.
There are those who claim that each user has an equivalent “value” of life and that it is not important to prejudge that the child will have to live while the adult will have to die.
Some will say that the adult deserves to be the one who stays alive because they have already shown that they can do it longer than the child (for more information on those other perspectives, see my discussion about the ethical device in this link here).
Here’s a variant.
Both are adults, and the one on the forked path is Einstein.
Is this your opinion on how to drive the car?
Some would say that avoiding the wagon away from Einstein is the “right” option, saving it and allowing him to live and, inevitably, offering the massive customers he intended to supply (we assume in this situation that he is a young man at the time of adult, Einstein).
Some will say that it is not so fast, and wonder if the other adult, the one in the straight, is someone who is destined to be so wonderful or perhaps make even more remarkable contributions to society (who knows?)
Anyway, I can see how moral dilemmas can run smoothly with the trolley challenge model.
Popular variants usually involve the number of other people caught on the tracks. For example, think that there are two other people trapped in the right path, while only one user is trapped on the forked road.
Some would say it is an “easy” reaction variant as it is presumed that the appearance of two other people is saved rather than saving one person. In this sense, it is ready for lives to be somewhat additive, and the more there are, the more this specific selection is ethically favorable.
I wouldn’t agree with that logic.
In any case, we have now placed the cart problem node on the table.
I realize that your initial reaction is probably an attractive and stimulating notion, but that it is too summed up and has no practical use.
Some object and point out that they never believe they fall into a cart and perhaps end up in this kind of obtuse pickle.
Gear change.
A firefighter rushed to a burning building.
There’s a guy in the building coming out of a window, a stinking smoke spills around him and screams to be saved.
What’s the fireman doing?
Of course, we hope the fireman can save the man.
But wait, there’s the sound of a child screaming out of control, trapped in a burning building room.
The firefighter will have to decide which one to remove to save, and why the firefighter will not have time to save them both.
If the firefighter chooses to save the child, the man will perish in the fire. If the firefighter chooses to save the man, the child will succumb to the fire.
Does that ring a bell?
It should because it is roughly equivalent to the Trolley Problem.
The fact is that there is real life that provides the underlying parameters and the general premise of the car problem.
Remove the challenge cart as indicated and take a look at the layout or elements underlying the cases (we can refer to the factor as the challenge of the cart as a reference, while cutting the cart and retaining the essential elements).
We have this:
· There are disastrous cases of life and death (more like death or death)
· All the effects are terrible (even do nothing) and result in death.
· Time’s up and there’s urgency and immediacy
· The options are incredibly limited and forced selection is required
You can query to argue that there is no “forced selection” because the option to do nothing is to have in those scenarios, however, we will assume that the user facing the scenario is aware of what is happening and realizes that making a selection even if they decide to do nothing.
Of course, if the user facing the selection is not aware of the ramifications of doing nothing, it can also be said that he was not aware that he had made a tacit selection. Similarly, a user who doesn’t understand the scenario could possibly wrongly not have to make a selection.
Suppose the user in question is fully aware of doing nothing and has to decide not to do anything or do nothing (I emphasize this point because of the facet that infrequently other people who think about the trolley challenge check to get out of the configuration by saying that doing nothing is the “right” selection , as they have then avoided taking any resolution; the choice to do nothing is actually considered as a resolution in this configuration).
By the way, in the case of the burning building, if the firefighter does nothing, the boy and the child will probably die, so it is a little clearer the challenge of the car as presented, so it may be more convincing than the firefighter will almost in fact make a selection. It differs from the challenge of the old car in that the firefighter has the ability to always point out, later, to do, nothing was definitely worse than making a selection, regardless of the obvious selection that was selected at the end.
Another point is not Hobson’s selection scenario, which is wrongly equated with the car problem.
Hobson’s selection is based on the ancient history of a horse owner who told those looking for a horse that they could be the closest horse to the solid gate or not take any horses. As such, the credit is to take the horse as proposed, while the unprecedented is that you end up without a horse. This is a decision-making situation of a taste to take or leave, and decidedly another of the cart challenge.
With all the context that sets the stage, we can see how this turns out to be a challenge similar to self-driving cars.
They will be in real self-driving cars based on artificial intelligence, which deserves to be transparent about what this formula means.
The role of AI-based cars
Real self-driving cars are the ones that AI handles completely alone and there is no human assistance in the task of driving.
These cars without driving force are considered grades four and 5, while a car that requires a human driving force to calculate the percentage driving effort is considered a point 2 or 3. Cars representing the driving task are described as semi-autonomous, and commonly include a variety of automatic add-ons called Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).
There is still a genuine self-driving car on Level 5, which we even know if this will be possible or how long it will take to get there.
Meanwhile, Level Four efforts gradually seek to gain some strength by undergoing very close and selective road tests, there is controversy over whether such evidence deserves to be compatible with itself (we are all guinea pigs of life or death in inconsistent reluctance on our roads and roads, some point out).
Since semi-autonomous cars require a human driver, adopting such cars will not be much different from driving traditional vehicles, so there is not much new in itself for the canopy on this issue (however, as you will see at a time, the following problems apply).
For semi-autonomous cars, it is vital for the public to be aware of a disturbing facet that has emerged lately, despite those human motivating forces that continue to publish videos of themselves sleeping at the wheel of a point 2 or point 3, we will have to avoid being fooled into thinking that the driving force can divert their attention from the task of driving while driving a semi-autonomous car.
You are to blame for driving the vehicle, regardless of the automation point that may be thrown at point 2 or 3.
Autonomous and car problem
For true point four and five autonomous vehicles, there will be no human driving force involved in the driving task.
All occupants will be passengers.
The AI is driving.
Here’s the thorny question: will you have to make genuine decisions about AI self-driving cars about car disorders while driving a self-driving vehicle?
The reaction of some experts is that this is an absurd and absolute idea, which describes the matter as a lie and anything that is not related to self-driving cars.
Oh seriously?
Start with the first non-unusual premise, namely that there is no trolleybus challenge in driving a car.
For anyone who wants to use the “never happens” argument (for almost everything), they are located in volatile, porous terrain, because it is enough to show lifestyles to result in the “never” being an incorrect statement.
I can easily provide that existence proof.
Explore the data on car injuries and, in doing so, here’s an example from a recent headline just a week ago: “The driving force that hits pedestrians on a sidewalk becomes an accident.”
The real-world report indicated that a driving force confronted through a van that stopped in front of him, and discovered that he had to decide to hit the other vehicle or leave to get away from the vehicle, although he also had a reputation. learned that there were pedestrians nearby and his turn would take him to pedestrians.
Which one to choose?
I hope you can see that this looks a lot like the tram problem.
If he decided to do nothing, he’d probably sink into the other vehicle. If he left, he’d probably hit the pedestrians. Both possible selections are terrible, however, a selection had to be made.
Some of you might say that this is not a life-or-death option, and in fact, fortunately, pedestrians, injured, have not actually been killed (at least as indicated in the report), however, I think they are struggling a little difficult to verify and reject the car problem.
It’s simple to say that death is at stake.
Anyone with an open brain would agree that a terrible selection had to be made, involving disastrous circumstances and limited selections, involving an emergency time factor, and in a different way consistent with the challenge of the car as a total (minus the car) )
As such, for those in the “never happens” field, this is an example among many for whom the word is never obviously false.
Happens.
In fact, it’s attractive to review to evaluate how this type of decision-making takes position behind the wheel of a car. In the United States alone, there are 3.2 billion kilometers traveled each year, which is through approximately 225 million authorized drivers, and the result is approximately 40,000 deaths and 2.3 million car accidents each year.
We do not know how many of those crashes involved a Trolley Problem scenario, but we do know that reportedly it does occur (as evidenced by news reporting).
With regard to this aspect of the reports, it is quite attractive that we deserve to be cautious in interpreting the stories and the policy of car accidents, due to a bias advised through these reports.
An examination discussed in the Columbia Journalism Review issues that the driving force is occasionally cited by journalists, rather than mentioning victims injured by the act of driving (this is logically explainable, because victims are difficult to achieve because they are in a hospital and would possibly be incapacitated or, unfortunately, are dead and therefore cannot explain what happened).
Possibly you would recognize this type of selective attention as a survival bias, a type of daily bias in which we have a tendency to focus on what is easier to obtain and forget or minimize what is less or less apparent.
To drive a car and report car accidents, we want to be aware of this aspect.
Possibly there would be cases related to the tram challenge that surviving participants would possibly not realize what happened, or are reluctant to report, and so on. In this sense, the challenge of the car incaricing in car injuries may not be sufficiently reported.
To be honest, we can also question the veracity of those who make a statement that amounts to a tram challenge and be careful assuming that this may not be the case because it says so. In that sense, we would possibly be aware of the possible overvaluation.
However, in general, we can reject the claim that the car challenge does not exist when driving a car.
In more assertive terms, we can settle and recognize that the challenge of the car exists when driving a car.
That, I said, and I’m there, there are experts who are crazy about it.
Autonomous management of cars and cars.
In any case, with this under our belt, we hope to agree that human drivers can and do the challenge of the car.
But only human drivers revel in it?
It can be said that an AI-based driving system, intended to drive a car and do it with the same capacity or greater capacity as human drivers, may very well encounter trolleybus problems.
Let’s take a closer look at this problem.
First, keep in mind that this does not recommend that only AI driving systems revel in a car problem, which is a confusion that exists.
There are those that claim the Trolley Problem will only happen to self-driving cars, but it hopefully is clear-cut that this is something that faces human drivers and we are extending that known facet to what we assume self-driving cars will encounter too.
Second, some argue that we will have only and exclusively AI-based true self-driving cars on our roadways, and as such, those vehicles will communicate and coordinate electronically via V2X (see my discussion at this link here), doing so in a fashion that will obviate any chance of a Trolley Problem arising.
Perhaps so, however, it is a long utopian term that we do not know will happen, and in the meantime, there will be a combination of human-driven and artificially intelligent cars, probably for a long time, at least decades, and we also do not know whether other people will ever give up their perceived “right” (it is a privilege). Array, see my discussion here) about driving.
This is a point that many Never-Trolley supporters neglect.
That’s how they end up in a corner.
The chorus is that an AI-based self-driving car has been “obviously” poorly designed or necessarily poorly constructed through AI developers if the vehicle is in the middle of a tram problem.
Generally, these same statements are also related to the confidence that we will have deaths due to self-driving cars.
As I have installed, 0 deaths is a 0 chance (see this link here).
It is an ambitious purpose and a comforting aspiration, but an establishment of deceptive and frankly false expectations.
The challenge is that if a pedestrian rushes down the street and there has been no caution with the action, and in the meantime, a self-employed car goes down the street 35 miles depending on the time, the physics of preventing in time can’t succeed just because the AI drives the car.
The same old replica is that AI would have detected the pedestrian beforehand, however, it is a lie that implies that the sensors will be perfectly able to detect such problems, and that this will be done well in advance for autonomous driving. The car can prevent the pedestrian.
I daresay a child running between two parked cars will offer that opportunity.
We return to the evidence of existence, which means that there will be cases where, regardless of the quality of AI and the quality of the sensors, there will be cases where AI will not be able to prevent a car accident.
Similarly, it can be said in the same vein that the challenge of the car will be solved through autonomous AI cars, those that are on our public streets, among human drivers and drive near human pedestrians.
The report on the human driving force that went through a van will surely take place in a self-driving car.
That’s indisputable.
If you now think that the trolley challenge can and can also happen in the case of AI self-driving cars, the next facet is what AI will do.
Suppose the AI hangs from the brakes and hits this truck in front of it.
Do you have any other options?
Was the AI even turning to the look of the road and climbing the sidewalk (and, in pedestrians)?
If you are an independent car manufacturer or manufacturer, you should be very, very attentive to your response.
I’ll tell you why.
You can only say that the AI only programmed to do the obvious, apply the brakes and check to slow down.
We can probably assume that AI is competent enough to calculate that, despite braking, it would sink into the van.
Therefore, he “knew” that a car turn of fate was imminent.
But if he also says that ai had no other options besides getting on the sidewalk, it actually turns out that AI was doing an insufficient task in driving the car, and we would have expected a human driving force to try. and compare opportunities to avoid a car accident.
In this sense, AI is probably flawed and possibly not on our public roads.
You also open your legal responsibility widely, what I have repeated several times is anything that in the end will be a massive exposure to car brands and autonomous car brands (see my article on this link and this as well).
Once auto-driving cars become widespread, and once they have car accidents, which will happen, the lawsuits will be approved and lawyers must already approve of those billions of dollar self-employed manufacturers. generation and self-driving cars.
Meanwhile, some of you might say that ai has thought of other alternatives, protecting the robustness of its artificial intelligence system, adding that he was contemplating climbing the sidewalk, but then calculated that pedestrians can be hit and choose to follow the course. and struck instead in the van.
Whoa, you just admitted that AI got tangled up in a trolley challenge scenario.
Welcome to the fold.
Conclusion
When a human driving force faces a tram challenge, it will most likely take into account its own possible death or injury, which is different from the traditional trolling challenge because the user who launches the transfer by the cart train tracks is not directly in danger (it may suffer emotional consequences or even legal repercussions , but not physically damage it).
Rather, we can assume that the AI of an autonomous car does not care about its own well-being (I don’t need to interfere with that discussion here and take us down a tangent, however, there are some who say that maybe one day assign human rights to AI, see my research on the link here).
In any case, the self-driving car would possibly retain passengers, which introduces a third detail of attention to the tram problem.
This is like adding a third track and a branch.
Complications go far beyond the classic forklift challenge as AI will now have to take into account a prospective non-unusual probability or a point of uncertainty, which involves the side that, in the case of the van, comes to the death or an imagined injury of the van. driving force and self-driving vehicles, in connection with the death or imaginable injuries of pedestrians and passengers of the self-employed car.
Maybe that’s the challenge with the steroid cart.
Time for a summary.
For Earthlings who deny the lifestyles of the tram challenge in the case of authentic self-driving cars based on AI, their head in the sand is not only shortsighted, but will be the simplest legal goal. Processing.
Why would you do that?
Because it was a well-known and discussed factor that the challenge of the car exists, however, it did nothing about it and hid behind the claim that it does not exist.
Good with that.
For those of you who are rare lands, you recognize that the trolley challenge exists for self-driving cars, but argue that it is a rarity, a challenge on board, a corner case.
Report to those who died when your genuine AI-based self-driving car hits someone, making it in this case “rare” that will happen.
Again, this will retain any legal water.
Then there are the Earthlings who ignore the car problem, and they regret that it is so busy now that it is on the list of priorities, and promises that one day, when the weather allows it, it will solve it.
There is little difference between infrequent lands and practices, and they will still have to give many explanations to a jury and make a judgement about when the time comes.
Here’s what automakers and independent generation corporations do:
· Develop a particular strategy on the car problem
· Develop a viable plan that progresses AI progression to address the car problem
· Conduct proper AI to verify the management of the car challenge
· Implement AI functions when in one position and monitor usage
· Adjust and improve AI as you can imagine to improve the control of car problems
Let us hope that this discussion will awaken flat Earthlings and push rare Earthlings and Earthlings to avoid them, urging them to pay proper attention to the challenge of the cart and to design enough AI driving systems to deal with it. Life or death count.
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Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned expert in synthetic intelligence (AI) with over 3 million perspectives accumulated in his AI columns. As an experienced, high-tech executive
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned expert in synthetic intelligence (AI) with over 3 million perspectives accumulated in his AI columns. As an experienced high-tech executive and entrepreneur, it combines the practical delight of the industry with in-depth educational studies to provide cutting-edge data on the long-term supply and long-term supply of AI and ML technologies and applications. A former USC and UCLA professor, and head of a pioneering AI lab, he speaks at major AI industry events. Author of more than 40 books, 500 articles and two hundred podcasts, he has appeared in media outlets such as CNN and co-hosted the popular technotrends radio screen. He has served as an advisor to Congress and other legislative bodies and has won many awards/recognitions. He sits on several director forums, has worked as a venture capitalist, angel investor and mentor for marketing founders and start-ups.