<story><title>MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luhn7TLfWU</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deepnet</author><text>Stuart Russel of AI a Modern Approach fame ( with Norvig ) asks us to consider the ethics of AI research - killer robotics, &amp;amp; hunter drones.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;robotics-ethics-of-artificial-intelligence-1.17611#&amp;#x2F;russell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;robotics-ethics-of-artificial-int...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;He calls for a moritorium until we can get a neural net to learn Asimov&amp;#x27;s 1st Law.&lt;p&gt;Should the self driving car swerve into you to avoid greater moral hazard ?&lt;p&gt;Humour aside as researchers and robotocists do we have a moral obligation to obey the 1st Law ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IgorPartola</author><text>&amp;gt; Should the self driving car swerve into you to avoid greater moral hazard?&lt;p&gt;The self-driving car&amp;#x27;s first priority should be to protect those inside it. Anything else is more complicated. I read an article a little while ago about this topic and it posed a question along the lines of &amp;quot;should a self-driving car do the thing that&amp;#x27;ll kill its own passengers, yet save a larger number of others around it?&amp;quot; Think about how difficult it would be for a self-driving car to estimate this. Even more importantly, how would two self-driving cars cooperate in the event of an inevitable accident? Would we allow them to directly talk to each other, or are they only allowed to interpret each others&amp;#x27; trajectories?&lt;p&gt;I think the simplest directive is &amp;quot;save your own passengers&amp;quot;. That is what human drivers currently do, and I believe in the long run this would be effective at saving the optimal number of lives. Besides, if choosing between a car with this directive and a car that&amp;#x27;s programmed to sacrifice you to save someone else, which would you buy?</text></comment>
<story><title>MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luhn7TLfWU</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deepnet</author><text>Stuart Russel of AI a Modern Approach fame ( with Norvig ) asks us to consider the ethics of AI research - killer robotics, &amp;amp; hunter drones.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;robotics-ethics-of-artificial-intelligence-1.17611#&amp;#x2F;russell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;robotics-ethics-of-artificial-int...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;He calls for a moritorium until we can get a neural net to learn Asimov&amp;#x27;s 1st Law.&lt;p&gt;Should the self driving car swerve into you to avoid greater moral hazard ?&lt;p&gt;Humour aside as researchers and robotocists do we have a moral obligation to obey the 1st Law ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LesZedCB</author><text>I thought the whole point of Asimov&amp;#x27;s exploration of his three laws was that they were fundamentally insufficient for any real ethical security.</text></comment>