While AI has great potential, it also raises challenges, notably around decision ethics. How will non-human systems that have to make decisions do so in an ethically sound way that is acceptable to the humans on the receiving end. Consider the much used example of a driverless vehicle caught in a circumstance where it has to harm someone, sometimes known as the "trolley problem". Which pedestrians or other road users does it “save”, and which does it “sacrifice”?
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