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In this episode Sven and John discuss the thorny topic of responsibility gaps and technology. Over the past two decades, a small cottage industry of legal and philosophical research has arisen in relation to the idea that increasingly autonomous machines create gaps in responsibility. But what does this mean? Is it a serious ethical/legal problem? How can it be resolved? All this and more is explored in this episode.
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Recommended Reading
- Robert Sparrow ‘Killer Robots‘
- Alexander Hevelke and Julian Nida-Rümelin, “Responsibility for Crashes of Autonomous Vehicles“
- Andreas Matthias ‘The Responsibility Gap: Ascribing Responsibility for the Actions Learning Automata‘
- Jack Stilgoe ‘Who’s Driving Innovation’, Chapter 1
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