ETHICAL DILEMMAS OFAUTONOMOUS VEHICLES: ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY, RISKANALYSISAND DECISION MAKING

This article presents an analysis of the ethical dilemmas created around intelligent autonomous systems, and more particularly around autonomous vehicles. The state of the art is studied from an interdisciplinary point of view. The challenges for the security of autonomous systems are pointed out, as well as the vulnerabilities affecting the resilience of autonomous systems with respect to external attacks. For this purpose, vehicle operation licensing is compared to the certification of autonomous systems. These concepts are applied to the case study of the first fatal accident caused by an autonomous vehicle in relation to the assignment of ethical and legal responsibility. Finally, the pending task of analyzing the relationship between the ethics of autonomous vehicles and game theory is addressed.