It's about 10 years in the future. You come to a car-sales event to purchase your very first self-driving autopilot car, having heard that these cars will revolutionise road safety, having far better reaction speeds and split-second decision-making capabilities than a human driver.
Researchers have done polls on large groups of people, when it comes to self-driving cars. The results are interesting, if predictable.
In general, people are comfortable with the idea that self-driving vehicles should be programmed to minimize the death toll.
Yet, they actually wished others to cruise in utilitarian autonomous vehicles, more than they wanted to buy utilitarian autonomous vehicles themselves. People are in favor of cars that sacrifice the occupant to save other lives—as long they don’t have to drive one themselves.
As a result, by using an AI that prioritises minimisation of road casualties, the opposite may occur as less people will buy these self-driving cars, leading to more road casualties due to human driving.
In fact, it is not far-fetched to suggest that if the AI cars are instead programmed to selfishly protect its owner at all costs, more lives will be saved as people are more willing to buy these cars! Quite a counter intuitive idea.
In simple sense, say if, one day, while you are driving along, an unfortunate set of events causes the car to head towards a crowd of 10 people crossing the road. It cannot stop in time, so it will avoid killing 10 people by steering into a wall, killing you in the process.
You’re like, Fuck that, I'm out. And you leave the event without purchasing the car.
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