ScienceDaily has an interesting article on the moral dilemmas that could face autonomous cars. Iyad Rahwan of MIT's Media Lab surveyed people on how safety rules should be programmed in these cars. People generally held a utilitarian view. For example, in a situation where a car could either career into a group of schoolchildren or smash into a wall, killing it's occupants, most people believed … [Read more...]

The Daily Mail reports on various dystopian AI scenarios---including all humans having to have a brain implant that allows for direct mind control. Surprisingly, there was nothing about robots coming over here, stealing the jobs and scrounging benefits---especially as it's (kind of) already happening...well, not the benefits bit, obviously. I'm off to kill the toaster before it turns on me. … [Read more...]