Gary Marcus, writing for The New Yorker, on a future where autonomous systems - such as Google’s driverless cars - are the norm:
That moment will be significant not just because it will signal the end of one more human niche, but because it will signal the beginning of another: the era in which it will no longer be optional for machines to have ethical systems.
An interesting article with a premise that I hadn’t considered. Technology moves us all forward, but in the process it raises difficult questions.