[SystemSafety] The Moral Math of Robots

Peter Bernard Ladkin ladkin at rvs.uni-bielefeld.de
Mon Mar 14 12:24:58 CET 2016


Trolleyology has an extensive history, starting with Philippa Foot and then Judith Jarvis Thompson,
some of which is referenced in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem . The original article
was from 49 years ago.

Here is a recent blog essay
http://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.de/2014/02/advanced-trolleyology-and-doctrine-of.html  I
haven't read it.

It's a great problem as long as you don't have an urgent need to solve it personally, right now :-)

Bruce Schneier's February Crypto-Gram includes a couple of relevant articles about trusting yourself
to driverless cars: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2016/0215.html#1 and the
subsequent article.

I think there is no question that these are important issues. Increasingly.

PBL
Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, 33594 Bielefeld, Germany
Je suis Charlie
Tel+msg +49 (0)521 880 7319  www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de





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