I have attached two papers, which discuss the trolley problem differently. one trying to follow the question and picture possible cases, the other, "Avoids" the unfairness of the Trolley problem, but its discussion is not long enough and gets to a conclusion fast. Which doctorine of thought do you prefer?
Farzad Torabi ,
I think both references target different problems altogether and it is not a matter of choosing doctrines. [1] is aimed at the problem that " the thesis that killing is worse than letting die cannot be used in any simple, mechanical way in order to yield conclusions about abortion, euthanasia, and the distribution of scarce medical resources." meanwhile [2] is aimed at autonomous vehicles.
Even putting this difference aside [2] states that "It is important to focus not on abstract thought experiments but on concrete conditions that influence the behavior and properties of self-driving cars as being developed through
different stages lading to deployment and inclusion in traffic". This also separates the scope of work of [2] with respect to [1].
I think [2] does not address the Trolley Problem and merely evades it. The statement "The relevant trolley problem scenario in the context of the state
of the art technology is thus more likely to be: hitting an obstacle that is correctly identified versus hitting another object that is unknown or incorrectly identified. It is unrealistic to assume that the self-driving car will have information about whether a human dies or not in a critical situation" is a different problem altogether. There are instances of the problem that take into account this issues and still the Trolley problem appears. further the statement in [2] that "When neural networks are trained by analyzing photos of pedestrians, are those photos subject to fairness?" is completely different than the Trolley problem.
In my sincere opinion I think that [2] should rename the title of the publication since it is a different set of problems that do not address the trolley problem, but are very important to take into account for AV design.
[1]Thomson, J. J. (1976). Killing, letting die, and the trolley problem. The Monist, 59(2), 204-217.
[2] Holstein, T., & Dodig-Crnkovic, G. (2018, May). Avoiding the intrinsic unfairness of the trolley problem. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Fairness (pp. 32-37).
Arturo Geigel Thank you ! I also think that the second article did not remain loyal to the topic
Hi,
In which use case, trolley problem fits in autonomous vehicles?
Thanks in advance.
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