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The Mind is Flat (book) by Nick Chater Rare find as the quotes live up to the content and have to say READ IT.    If you are thinking like me about ethics and AI - this is essential reading.   ----- A radical reinterpretation of how your mind works - and why it could change your life’ 'An astonishing achievement. Nick Chater has blown my mind' 'A total assault on all lingering psychiatric and psychoanalytic notions of mental depths ... Light the touchpaper and stand well back' We all like to think we have a hidden inner life. Most of us assume that our beliefs and desires arise from the murky depths of our minds, and, if only we could work out how to access this mysterious world, we could truly understand ourselves. For more than a century, psychologists and psychiatrists have struggled to discover what lies below our mental surface. In The Mind Is Flat , pre-eminent behavioural scientist Nick Chater reveals that this entire enterprise is utterly mis

Original Article :  https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/self-driving-cars-life-death-3640133 These are fantastic discussions and as humanity we are not having enough of them but rather than clink-bate with headlines for adverting revenue, what are the first principal questions? This specific moral dilemma make a number of assumptions : the machine can differentiate the machine can make the choice (algorithm/ software/ data) it is possible to do one action over another (physics: motion and time) where is experience / learning in the feedback loop who said we had the choice in the first case Given that the road accident for the victim is currently random (other than premeditated and malicious) - who gave someone the right to pick or select me. If I am selected that means a new liability for someone.  The existing system being based on risk and acts of freewill, allowing machines to decide, as the human has determined by programming and selection this removes freewill.  H