Auto-Correct: Fantasies & Failures of AI Ethics in the Driverless Car

Mon Sep 08 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm UTC-07:00

DataX, Murphy Hall 3312 | Los Angeles

Department of Information Studies, UCLA
Publisher/HostDepartment of Information Studies, UCLA
Auto-Correct: Fantasies & Failures of AI Ethics in the Driverless Car
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This is a book talk by Dr Maya Indira Ganesh (Leverhulme Center for Futures of Intelligence, Cambridge) based on her first monograph.
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The “trolley problem” remains a useful exercise in drawing out the differences between utilitarian and deontological approaches to ethics in analytic philosophy. However, the thought experiment also determined imagining what AI-infused artefacts should be capable of, suggesting that ethical decision-making becomes a data-driven enterprise rather than a human, social, or individualised practice. Maya Indira Ganesh tracks the language, materiality, and culture of epistemic tools that establish safety and automobility as problems to be solved by the driverless car, examining outputs of AI systems versus what constitutes our social and technological presents and futures.

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DataX, Murphy Hall 3312, 410 Charles E Young Drive East, Los Angeles, United States

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