What the AI safety movement can learn from the self-driving industry

A productive safety debate needs to get specific.

In 2016 New York Times tech reporter John Markoff wrote about a survey that asked people to weigh in on questions like this: “Is it acceptable for an AV (autonomous vehicle) to avoid a motorcycle by swerving into a wall, considering that the probability of survival is greater for the passenger of the AV, than for the rider of the motorcycle? Should AVs …