Machine Ethics and Emerging Technologies
summary
Autonomous cars cut U.S. traffic deaths from ~40,000 to a projected ~2,000 but create concentrated corporate liability and new failure modes from software exploits; truck convoys already cut human caretakers to 1/5–1/6 and threaten 3.5 million truck drivers plus ~8.7 million related jobs (~13 million total) with technological unemployment; IBM Watson reaches ~90% agreement on breast‑cancer treatment recommendations while being deployed by insurers; solar drones now fly weeks continuously and, unlike Predator systems that require a human firing decision, fully autonomous lethal drones risk anonymous, untrackable strikes.
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chapters (51)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:27Machine Ethics and Emerging Technologies
- 2:33Why people are scared of new technologies
- 3:11How to talk about new technologies
- 3:35Imagine that far distant future
- 3:50Virtual Reality
- 4:05Thought Experiment
- 4:20Autonomous Vehicles
- 6:57Machine Ethics
- 7:37Market for Ethical Cars
- 8:28How many people need to be inconvenienced
- 8:43Why would you ever ask that
- 9:03The answer is
- 9:40Nobody should die
- 10:26Traffic fatalities
- 10:49Autonomous cars
- 11:25Software defects
- 12:23Concentration of liability
- 13:20Insurance
- 14:09Corporate Ownership
- 14:54Human Driver
- 15:48Truck Driver
- 17:11Fuel Efficient
- 17:26Impact
- 18:37Technological Unemployment
- 19:12Industrial Revolution
- 20:10Water Bearer
- 22:17Access to Education
- 23:06Working Less
- 23:46Leisure Time
- 25:34Innovation
- 25:47Future
- 26:47Unemployable
- 27:25Technological Dividend
- 27:45Universal Basic Income
- 29:29Drones
- 29:48Drone Disaster Relief
- 31:30Drone Kill Authorization
- 32:44Jamming
- 33:38Solar Powered Electric Drones
- 34:17Environmental Monitoring
- 35:01Anonymous Warfare
- 35:40Human Rights Watch
- 36:19IBM
- 37:06Doctor Watson
- 37:54Medical Advice
- 38:23WellPoint
- 39:40Human doctors could spot cancer
- 39:54Everything Ive shown you here
- 40:05Already exists
- 40:26The future will be awesome
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