Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines
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I have seen accidents where a truck driver drives partially off the road to slow down his truck and minimize damage, but does not go entirely off it because that would kill him.
(1) that this is a misapplication of philosophical thought experiments because
(2) it fails to appreciate the purpose of moral dilemmas, and
(3) this has potentially catastrophic consequences; however,
(4) there are uses of moral dilemmas in machine ethics that are appropriate and the novel situations that arise in a machine-learning context can shed some light on philosophical work in ethics..."