In your opinion, do the ethical questions that we are facing today with the emergence
Alexei Grinbaum: Echo… good choice of word. Obviously, the technological context is new but that doesn’t necessarily mean that to get to grips with it we must come up with completely new ethics. Hans Jonas, a great German philosopher of the 70s, search! for these new ethics for years without finding them.
The lesson to be learnt from that is that new technology
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Frédéric Serval: I would like to chat with you about the trolley problem, which describes a choice between two how low-code/no-code solutions bolster ai unacceptable outcomes.
Is there really an ethical solution to this problem?
Some people for example, have put forward the idea of an opinion poll. However, if we take the example of the MIT “Moral Machines” website, which gathers people’s moral choices in the case of an unavoidable accident with several types of variables, we notice that the answers have substantial variation. I believe this shows the limits of the possibility of a mathematical approach when solving a moral dilemma.
Alexei Grinbaum: With psychologist Jean-François Bonnefon we took part be numbers in a debate on this subject at the l’École be numbers supérieure. Several strategies were suggest! for resolving the trolley problem but before addressing these we must specify that it is a model and not a real situation. In real life, an autonomous vehicle only has limit! decision time and limit! access to data. The trolley problem puts the technical parameters to one side so as to focus on a purely moral dimension. The question is: should the software developer code moral values into the machine to enable it to make the decision?