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diff --git a/csci4511w/writing1.tex b/csci4511w/writing1.tex index f4ee136..9dbdcc3 100644 --- a/csci4511w/writing1.tex +++ b/csci4511w/writing1.tex @@ -8,28 +8,34 @@ \begin{document} \maketitle \section*{Trust and Ethics for AVs} - One of the most important things in the study of ethics is its defintion. Instead of using the defintion supplied in the paper, I will define ethical behavior as the following: + One of the most important things in the study of ethics is its defintion. + Instead of using the defintion supplied in the paper, I will define ethical behavior as the following: \begin{quote} \emph{Ethical behavior is behavior that while not always for the better for the individual is beneficial for society as a whole.} \end{quote} - While this is a flawed defintion, I will use it as I disagree with the one given and believe that utilitarianism would be better for AI purposes. Everything after this will be based on that opinion. + While this is a flawed defintion, I will use it as I disagree with the one given and believe that utilitarianism would be better for AI purposes. - The paper defines four different definitions for + + The paper defines four different definitions for ethics in the case of autonomous vehicles (AVs). + All of these involve protecting the human cargo that vehicles contain if they would ever fail. + While oversimplified this can also be extrapolated to protecting non-human cargo by replacing ``human being'' with something else. + + The first social norm (SN) is as follows: \begin{quote} \emph{(SN-0) A robot (or AI or AV) will never harm a human being.} \end{quote} - + The paper correctly defines SN-0 as being practically impossible, as there are some instances where harm cannot be avoided. + Dealing with this, SN-1 directly supersedes SN-0. \begin{quote} - \emph{(SN-1) A robot will never deliberately harm a human being.} + \emph{(SN-1) A robot will never \textbf{deliberately} harm a human being.} \end{quote} - + This law is incomplete without its corollary: \begin{quote} - \emph{(SN-2) In a given situation, a robot will be no more likely than a skilled and alert human - to accidentally harm a human being.} + \emph{(SN-2) In a given situation, a robot will be no more likely than a skilled and alert human to accidentally harm a human being.} \end{quote} - + Both SN-1 and SN-2 are alternate tallings of both the Hippocratic oath and Asimov's first law of robotics \begin{quote} - \emph{(SN-3) A robot must learn to anticipate and avoid Deadly Dilemmas. } + \emph{(SN-3) A robot must learn to anticipate and avoid Deadly Dilemmas.} \end{quote} |