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How Will Self-Driving Cars Learn to Make Life-and-Death Choices?

A thought-provoking long-form read in the WSJ. Insurance companies will face challenges assessing AI decision-making risks, shifting liability from drivers to manufacturers, adapting to evolving regulations, and managing new risk categories like Vehicle-2-Vehicle communication.

Others see different considerations. “The expectations for autonomous vehicles are much higher than for individuals,” says Melissa Cefkin, an anthropologist and lecturer in the department of general engineering at Santa Clara University who has worked with Nissan and Waymo on the interaction between humans and autonomous vehicles. “When an individual has an incident, we can say, ‘They’re only human. They tried their best. It was an accident,’ ” she says. “We’re not going to be as forgiving with a company, and we probably shouldn’t be.”

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