The rise in AI has interested me quite a lot lately. Imagine a driver-less car that's destined to hit either 1 pedestrian or 3. How would the AI process what to do in a situation like that? These are moral questions that will eventually need to be coded into the AI.
Sadly though, technological progress is skyrocketing, while moral philosophy is still pottering around at an elementary philosophical level. My experience from studying moral philosophy at University taught me that there is no unanimously agreed upon definition of morality, yet alone an objectively progressing moral science. I suspect religion is the main culprit for this.
Regardless, this chasm between science and moral philosophy is going to be a huge problem for the future. I suspect whole new fields of moral engineering will pop up, sidestepping regressive philosophical relativists. If it doesn't, however, I suspect technology will become increasingly unbounded and will be incorrectly viewed as the cause for a lot of damage & and destruction.
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