TED AFYON COLLEGE / 10-B
Laws On Digital Ethics:
Who Is Guilty When A Self-
Driving Car Has An Accident?
Batuhan ULUKÜTÜK
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Artificial intelligence instruments and technologies that lead us
to new and different lifestyles, which are among the problems
that will emerge as a result of the technological advances, steer
us to a fundamental principle of humanity: justice. In this regard,
the most feasible solution seems to be the concept of digital law.
Nowadays technology has improved faster than we anticipated
and suddenly impelled us to an utterly different world and way
of life. Ultimately all artificial elements will be replaced by the
new procedures and practices. But, of course, what all these
instruments serve to is the mankind, which is at the heart of all
technological advances. In this way, several conscientious and
spiritual senses peculiar to humans will not disappear in any case;
however, they will have to keep pace with new circumstances.
Our topic is the most essential sense of them all: justice. We
must search for the answers to the questions in digital law such
as “Is the way that virtual media and AIs are following while they
developing rampantly in compliance with ethics?” or “Which
authority shall be accounted for problems caused by these?”.
These proceedings should be handled with “the ability to pass
fair judgment”, which is too humanistic a trait to be left in the
hands of sheer technology. Accordingly, I think that it must
be real-living people who provide this justice. Considering the
example in the title; the self-driving car that hits a pedestrian
has no real faculty to defend itself –which, I think, is good so