Article ID: CBB026908939

Machine learning, social learning and the governance of self-driving cars (February 2018)

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Self-driving cars, a quintessentially ‘smart’ technology, are not born smart. The algorithms that control their movements are learning as the technology emerges. Self-driving cars represent a high-stakes test of the powers of machine learning, as well as a test case for social learning in technology governance. Society is learning about the technology while the technology learns about society. Understanding and governing the politics of this technology means asking ‘Who is learning, what are they learning and how are they learning?’ Focusing on the successes and failures of social learning around the much-publicized crash of a Tesla Model S in 2016, I argue that trajectories and rhetorics of machine learning in transport pose a substantial governance challenge. ‘Self-driving’ or ‘autonomous’ cars are misnamed. As with other technologies, they are shaped by assumptions about social needs, solvable problems, and economic opportunities. Governing these technologies in the public interest means improving social learning by constructively engaging with the contingencies of machine learning.

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Authors & Contributors
Doorn, Neelke
Coeckelbergh, Mark
Lipson, Hod
Alexandra Luccioni
Taebi, Behnam
Rino Falcone
Concepts
Technology and ethics
Technology and society
Artificial intelligence
Machine learning
Technological innovation
Autonomous vehicles
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Institutions
International Business Machines Corporation
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