Date published:
October 9, 2015
"Gerdes has been working with a philosophy professor, Patrick Lin, to make ethical thinking a key part of his team’s design process. Lin, who teaches at Cal Poly, spent a year working in Gerdes’s lab and has given talks to Google, Tesla, and others about the ethics of automating cars. The trolley problem is usually one of the first examples he uses to show that not all questions can be solved simply through developing more sophisticated engineering. Read more » about Would You Pull the Trolley Switch? Does it Matter?
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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on October 09, 2015 at 10:00AM