Prof Hossein Sarrafzadeh

Director, Centre of Computational Intelligence for Cyber Security and High Tech Transdisciplinary Research Network, Unitec Institute of Technology

本研究で提起された問題は重要ですが、問題はそれだけにとどまりません。私たちの生活に多くの機械が使われている現在、機械にどれくらいコントロール権を与えるかがさらに重要になってきます。

今回の課題は、軍のパイロットが墜落時に行う意思決定に似ています。例えば、墜落する飛行機が住宅街に落ちるリスクや、住宅地外まで飛行機を飛ばしてパイロットが生き延びられるかどうかというリスクが発生するなどです。ただし、このようなケースはめったに起こることではありませんし、自動運転車の場合でもそれほど起きないでしょう。

すでに多くの自動車会社や大学がこのテーマで研究を始めています。自動運転車が一般道で普通に走るようになる前に、この課題を解決する必要があります。

原文

"The issue raised by this paper is an important one but perhaps not the only one. We need to decide how much control we give to machines and as machines are used more extensively in our lives this question becomes more central.

"This is an example of a global issue which is best studied using a transdisciplinary approach. More work needs to be done by social scientists, computer scientists, engineers, insurance companies and those involved in legislation.

"The challenge raised in the paper is similar to the decision a military jet pilot would need to make when the plane is crashing and there is a risk of the plane crashing in a residential area and whether or not the pilot(s) risk their lives to continue to fly the plane out of the residential zone. The possibility of cases such as this happening in aviation is not high. The same may be true in the case of driverless cars.

"Many automotive companies and universities have already started research aimed at studying this life and death challenge. Although driverless cars will need to substantially reduce the risk of accident situations such as what is raised in this paper, such issues would need to be resolved before driverless cars become common on our roads. When we use artificial intelligence we are trusting a machine to make decisions for us. Trading shares, driving cars and flying airplanes are examples of such cases."