Couple of potentially interesting ethical ones for the panel.
First, self driving cars. A question on the internets is posed as follows:
You are in such a car, between two lorries on a mountain road, heading downhill steeply. The brakes fail on the lorry behind.
If the car stays where it is, it will be crushed between the two lorries, and you will die.
If the car veers left, it will go over the cliff edge and you will die.
If the car veers right it will hit a motorcyclist and he will die.
What should it do, and of course - who is liable? The software coders? The manufacturers? You?
Second example - given how ridiculously easy this new technology (or rather amalgamation of existing technology) makes it to kill someone from a huge distance with almost no effort, should sales be restricted/prohibited, or is this in fact just no more than another gun and nothing has changed for better or worse?
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UoMAiYnJOBM
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The ethics of technology new
The ethics of technology new