tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3436545355620692231.post8055535015676361060..comments2024-03-26T22:11:30.171-07:00Comments on Moral Machines: Elevators and EthicsColin Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06654741102989016317noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3436545355620692231.post-44837732435364565192017-09-21T23:08:49.903-07:002017-09-21T23:08:49.903-07:00i'm really thankful to you for this informatio...<br />i'm really thankful to you for this information.<br /><br /><a href="http://jaiminielevators.com/hospital-lift/" rel="nofollow">hospital lift service providers in delhi</a><br /><a href="http://jaiminielevators.com/goods-lift/" rel="nofollow">goods lift manufacturers in delhi</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04798418562743571002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3436545355620692231.post-67108473897117335732010-01-21T14:25:58.570-08:002010-01-21T14:25:58.570-08:00Come on - this doesn't remind anyone of Dougla...Come on - this doesn't remind anyone of <a href="http://is.gd/6Lgy0" rel="nofollow">Douglas Adams on elevators</a>? I can't resist it, then.<br /><br />In more serious response to the post, the first generation will presumably not know the difference between urgent and non-urgent elevatoring. But that is no argument against smarter elevators, as you acknowledge, since the current ones certainly can't, and <i>on average</i> the elevatoring will be faster for all - so both parties should prefer it.<br /><br />As for options later, until the elevators have person-level intelligence, they are likely to have options like "obey overrides by passengers, and resolve conflicts by ID'd corporate rank" - in other words, like most sub-person-level intelligent technology, the ethics will still lie squarely with the users rather than with the machine itself; who gets override priority with the elevator resource would probably be decided like it's decided now who gets priority with the copy machine resource. Presumably some would abuse such options, and some would not.Steve Petersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05722481073362781525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3436545355620692231.post-67661976162344494292010-01-14T07:24:22.364-08:002010-01-14T07:24:22.364-08:00Right, but those who find any degree of ethical se...Right, but those who find any degree of ethical sensitivity threatening would not prefer ethically insensitive machines, but but would rather see no machine in the position to make a decision at all. I'm enough of a pessimist to think that we can't roll back automation that far, however.Colin Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06654741102989016317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3436545355620692231.post-46126779340047475042010-01-14T06:44:41.385-08:002010-01-14T06:44:41.385-08:00Whenever someone suggests that it's scary that...Whenever someone suggests that it's scary that machines might be making decisions that are sensitive to ethics, it occurs to me that the scary situation is the one where the machine fails to do so.Thom Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00842876720820172673noreply@blogger.com