Archive for March, 2021

Climbing into the trolley: Cinema’s use of AI to extend moral and ethical dilemmas

Climbing into the trolley: Cinema’s use of AI to extend moral and ethical dilemmas

Since Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, film-makers have given AI human characteristics in order to create the kinds of moral dilemmas typified by the infamous ‘trolley problem’ thought experiment. But what does this say about the important ethical decisions we need to make in our relationship with AI technology? It is not hard to see why AI […]