Naslov
Against ethics settings of autonomous vehicles

Autori
Bracanović, Tomislav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Zagreb Applied Ethics Conference 2019

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 26.06.2019. - 28.06.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Autonomous vehicles ; dilemmatic situations ; ethics settings

Sažetak
It is generally agreed that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will improve road traffic safety and, consequently, save human lives. A number of AVs, it is also generally agreed, is bound to encounter so-called dilemmatic situations of having to choose between two evils, e.g. sacrificing one life in order to save several others. For this reason, there is an ongoing debate about the ethics settings for AVs: the way AVs should be programmed to behave in dilemmatic situations and, no less important, who should decide how they should be programmed. This problem will be formulated as a trilemma between (a) AVs with personal ethics settings, (b) AVs with mandatory ethics settings and (c) AVs with no ethics settings. It will be argued that, when it comes to the number of lives to be saved, all three options are likely to outperform conventional vehicles and (b) is likely to outperform (a) and (c). Nevertheless, it will be also argued that (a) and (b) should be rejected due to their unacceptable – both utilitarian and deontological – moral implications and that (c) is the only plausible option.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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