Two schools of economic thinking have been engaged in a debate about the potential effects of automation on jobs, employment and human activity: Will new technology spawn mass unemployment, as the robots take jobs away from humans?
A chart of study predictions about job creation/loss as a result of automation, including when the study was performed, by who, the scale of the study, and predictions.
A Silicon Valley startup has completed what appears to be the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck, which finished a 2,800-mile-run from Tulare, California to Quakertown, Pennsylvania for Land O’Lakes in under three days.
As Tesla's get into the hands of more consumers, the ethics of auto-pilot decision-making is put into question.
The fatal crash that killed pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona, occurred because of a software bug in Uber's self-driving car technology.
Ideally, ethics, law, and policy would line up, but often they don’t in the real world. Should we trust robotic cars to share our road, just because they are programmed to obey the law and avoid crashes?
A platform for public participation in discussion of the human perspective on machine-made moral decisions. A simulation that allows participants to make moral decisions an self-driving car may have to make and see where they align compared to others.
Should lethal autonomous weapon systems be programmed to strike and kill without direct human oversight? If so, when and how? Should the algorithms used to make automated battlefield decisions be subject to review and inspection? If so, by whom?