What David Edmonds thinks about AI agents

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British philosopher and broadcaster, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, author of Would You Kill the Fat Man? and co-host of Philosophy Bites.

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1. 14 Nov 2018

   Our readingPeople will be more tolerant of machines making utilitarian decisions than of humans doing so.

   Their wordsHowever, I think that when it comes to machines we will be more tolerant of their making utilitarian decisions.

   ↗Cars without drivers still need a moral compass. But what kind?theguardian.com 3rd of 6 in this piece