A Study in AI Ethics

On a Formal Model of Safe and Scalable Self-driving Cars (Response)

This paper explores the formal process in which self-driving cars can be programmed to avoid accidents. It lays out, in a rather simple language, the conditions a self-driving car would need to follow to be…

Notes on Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS)

A universal, accepted model of safety

The item I noticed in the RSS paper was the acknowledgment that a single model of safety for AVs must be accepted by all stakeholders (engineers, manufacturers…

Who is morally responsible when an autonomous robot takes a decision to kill a human being? (Response)

Killer Robots (Response)

When considering the ethics of autonomous systems, the rules of the game vary wildly based on the system at hand. For example, in the context of autonomous vehicles (AVs), our main objective is to avoid accidents as much as possible, but more generally, never be responsible for one…

On the Determination of Moral Responsibility Using Fully Autonomous Weapons Systems

In determining where responsibility lies in cases involving artificial intelligence, particularly autonomous weapons systems, it is first important to define what is really meant by the…

Measuring Automated Vehicle Safety (Response)

There is no doubt that the question of safety and what it means in terms of…

The Case for Nvidia’s AV Safety Force Field (SFF)