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Uncomfortable ethics for autonomous vehicles

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Dr Tripat Gill examines the ethical dilemmas that will face AVs (autonomous vehicles) on the road, and undertook a study which shows that responsibility attribution has an effect on people's decision making.

Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles (AVs), are an inevitability on our roads. That’s probably a good thing – most accidents are the result of human error. Ironically, humans will still need to programme the ’thinking’ part of an AV, especially when it’s presented with ethical dilemmas. But how important is this for AV manufacturers? Dr Tripat Gill of Wilfrid Laurier […]

Is it possible to train medical experts using Artificial Intelligence (AI) training methods?

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining traction in all walks of human life. Today, apps that recognise and respond to human speech and self-driving cars are no longer the stuff of science fiction but facts of life. But what if AI – more specifically, a method called deep learning that is used for training smart computers – were used to […]