Self-Driving Cars

The Key Concepts of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

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Author: Ville Vakkuri, Pekka Abrahamsson; Publisher: IEEE Xplore; Publication Year: 2018. The following article seeks to find out what the reoccurring themes are in artificial intelligence (AI) ethics discourse as a way of understanding the current state of AI ethics as well as determining a direction for AI ethics going forward by using these themes to create a framework. 1062 papers were analyzed and 37 reoccurring keywords words related to AI…

A New Study Finds a Potential Risk with Self-Driving Cars: Failure to Detect Dark-Skinned Pedestrians

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Author: Sigal Samuel; Publisher: Vox; Publication Year: 2019. The following article talks about the self-driving Uber cars. It points to a very important ethical issue in data science i.e. the issue that self-driving Uber cars so biased that they cannot detect a dark-skinned pedestrian for stopping. This shows that algorithms are inherently biased and that is probably because historically white males in positions of power…

The Moral Dilemmas Behind Developing Self-Driving Vehicles

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Author: Sarah Koa; Publisher: KrASIA; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how the benefits of self-driving cars range from increased mobility to efficiency and convenience. These cars can also reduce crashes, lower carbon emissions, and increase road safety. No car today is completely automatic and with some of the issues automatic cars present currently, completely automatic cars probably will…

The Ethical Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars

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Author: Patrick Lin; Publisher: TED-Ed; Publication Year: 2015. The following video breaks down a real-life ethical decision that has to be made when utilizing automated systems, particularly self-driving cars. The author presents a scenario in which a self-driving car is boxed into a lane, with 2 cars on each side of him and a dump truck ahead of him. Heavy items begin to fall out of the dump truck that will possibly…

7 Short-Term AI Ethics Questions

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Author: Orlando Torres; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how data scientists must be reactive instead of proactive when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) tech dangers. He mentions 7 important topics in which we should create questions and be proactive with potential issues: 1). Biases in algorithms; 2). Transparency of algorithms; 3). Supremacy of algorithms; 4). Fake news and…

Driverless Cars: Experts Warn No Easy Answer to How Safe They Should Be

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Author: Chris Vallance; Publisher: BBC News; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how self-driving cars, while emerging in the tech world, are not yet normalized in overall society. In the UK, policymakers are contemplating when to begin integrating self-driving cars onto the road. There are concerns that the public will not be as understanding of crashes with self-driving cars…