machine ethics

If drinking and driving, ride the car that doesn’t need your input or let it go home w/o you

Open Roboethics Initiative 18 Aug 2014

For the past few months the Open Roboethics initiative and Robohub have explored the topic of autonomous cars in the form of biweekly polls. We were able to find out a lot of interesting facts about w...

Readers split on whether they will miss driving their non-autonomous car

Open Roboethics Initiative 04 Aug 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-MGQqaY3eo Driving has become an integral component of our daily lives, especially in developed countries. Cars are not just a means for us to get from point A to p...

Autonomous car poll: Participants choose random chance over informed decision

Open Roboethics Initiative 21 Jul 2014

Given a choice between crashing into a motorcyclist wearing a helmet vs. a motorcyclist who isn’t wearing one, which one should an autonomous car be programmed to crash into? What about the choice b...

Reader poll: How should an autonomous car optimize crashes?

Open Roboethics Initiative 08 Jul 2014

Photo by Roland Dobbins, Wikimedia A couple of months ago Dr. Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, wrote an article on autonomous...

My (autonomous) car, my safety: Results from our reader poll

Open Roboethics Initiative 30 Jun 2014

You are travelling along a single lane mountain road in an autonomous car that is approaching a narrow tunnel. You are the only passenger of the car....

If death by autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die? Reader poll results

Open Roboethics Initiative 23 Jun 2014

Image credit: Craig Berry Life and death decisions make interesting thought experiments. When you throw an autonomous car into the mix, things get even more interesting....

Reader poll: If a death by an autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die?

Open Roboethics Initiative 10 Jun 2014

Image source: Karora via Wikipedia. There may be times when an accident or a death is unavoidable while an autonomous car is controlling the wheel. What should an autonomous car do when such ...

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RoboRoach, with Bill Reith and Oliver Bendel

Ron Vanderkley 16 May 2014

In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Bill Reith, an engineer at Backyard Brains. The company develops RoboRoach, the world’s first commercially available “cyborg”, which was successfully ...