[ExI] Do robot cars need ethics as well?

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 19:03:40 UTC 2012


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> An "intelligent" car need not have more ethical software in its
> programming than a corkscrew

This comment got me imagining a wine bottle opening robot
programmed by a wine snob, who believed that issues of
which wine to serve with which courses and who to serve
which types of wine to were in fact ethical issues.  ;)

Then again, there is a Flash game that lets you mix
simulated drinks, and renders judgment on their quality in a
fashion that could be interpreted as moral judgment.



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