Autonomous People: Identity, Agency, and Automated Driving

Dunn, Peter T.

doi:10.1080/10630732.2021.1950104

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“…Scientific literature on AV technology ethics is dominated by discussions about the trolley problem (Martinho et al 2021), i.e., the ethics of the vehicle's decision-making process in accident scenarios (Borenstein et al 2019;Lundgren 2021a). Other ethical discussions address safety (Hansson et al 2021;Lundgren 2021a), individual autonomy (Dunn 2021;Chiodo 2022), distributed responsibility and accountability (Liu 2017), explainability (Umbrello and Yampolskiy 2022) and privacy (Cunneen et al 2020;Jannusch et al 2021).…”

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Bowling alone in the autonomous vehicle: the ethics of well-being in the driverless car

Ferdman

2022

AI & Soc

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There is a growing body of scholarship on the ethics of autonomous vehicles. Yet the ethical discourse has mostly been focusing on the behavior of the vehicle in accident scenarios. This paper offers a different ethical prism: the implications of the autonomous vehicle for human well-being. As such, it contributes to the growing discourse on the wider societal and moral implications of the autonomous vehicle. The paper is premised on the neo-Aristotelian approach which holds that as human beings, our well-being depends on developing and exercising our innate human capacities: to know, understand, love, be sociable, imagine, create and use our bodies and use our willpower. To develop and exercise these capacities, our environments need to provide a range of opportunities which will trigger the development and exercise of the capacities. The main argument advanced in the paper is that one plausible future of the autonomous vehicle-a future of single-rider autonomous vehicles-may effectively reduce the opportunities to develop and exercise our capacities to know, be sociable and use our willpower. It will therefore be bad for human well-being, and this provides us with a moral reason to resist this plausible future and search for alternative ones.

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