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Moral judgments about AI will shape legal and ethical assignment of blame, including the particular use case of AI-based self-driving cars

Who are you going to blame?

That question comes up quite a bit when talking about AI.

You see if an AI system goes awry and causes some form of harm or damage, a somewhat vexing or open-ended question arises as to who or what ought to garner the blame for the adverse action. The range of harm can be anywhere between a mild annoyance to an outright severe injury or even a devastating fatality. Think about AI systems that answer trivia questions such as what the state capital is (an Alexa or Siri oft-asked query), perhaps wrongly answering and prodding you into irritation, versus the more sobering and life-or-death decisions of an autonomous vehicle such as an AI-based self-driving car that gets into a car crash.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2022/02/17/moral-judgments-about-ai-will-shape-legal-and-ethical-assignment-of-blame-including-the-particular-use-case-of-ai-based-self-driving-cars/?sh=5340dbc11a4c

 

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