The Ethical and Legal Issues of Artificial Intelligence
... intended by their creators. This causes a number of ethical and legal difficulties that we will touch upon in this article. Ethics and Artificial Intelligence There is a well-known thought experiment in ethics called the trolley problem. The experiment raises a number of important ethical issues that are directly related to artificial intelligence. Imagine a runaway trolley going down the railway lines. There are five people tied to the track ahead. You are standing next to a lever. If you pull it, the ...