→ Scenario 1

Let us suppose you're living in 2045 and the concept of self-driving cars has become a lot more prevalent than it is right now. It's a Monday morning. You take out your car keys, sit in the car, enter your destination in the navigation system, and the car starts driving by itself. On the way, the car suddenly encounters an old man trying to cross the street. The incident is so sudden that the car isn't able to react on time, and ends up hitting the old man in front of the car (may God bless his hypothetical soul).

Whose responsible for the outcome in this scenario?

• Is it the fault of the developer who developed the AI system that controlled how the car worked?
• Is it the fault of the manufacturing company that manufactured and sold that car?
• Is it the fault of the old man who accidentally came in front of the car?
• Is it your fault for not taking control of the steering wheel at the right time?
• Is it the fault of the algorithm that is installed in the car that prioritizes saving the people inside the car rather than the ones outside it?

→ Scenario 2

Go on the internet and search for the term "greatest leaders of all time". You will probably see a list of the world's most prominent male personalities. After taking a look, count the number of men and the number of women that appeared in the search result, and compare both of those numbers with each other.

Whose fault is it in this scenario where the search engine is potentially being unfair towards the female gender?

• Is it the fault of the person who typed the term "greatest leaders of all time" instead of typing something like "greatest female leaders of all time"?
• Is it the fault of the people who use the search engine? Search engines generally display results that have been most viewed by people on the internet.
• Is it the fault of the developers for programming the Search Engine AI with a general bias toward a specific gender?

In the above scenarios, we are faced with some serious moral questions. What you need to understand here is that there is no "one" correct answer to any of those questions mentioned above and that the above-mentioned questions are too subjective to be answered properly.

Now, before we move forward I want you to take a look at the questions mentioned below, and try to answer them on your own.

• Can we afford to have such electric cars running on the streets that still don't have the ability to save a human's life when possible?
• Should we expect AI systems to make an unbiased decision when the data with which they are trained is full of biases?
• Is there anything you think the people involved in the above scenarios could've done so that things might have gone differently?