Autonomous Vehicles

In December 2025, I spoke with Manfred Kloiber on Deutschlandfunk’s Computer und Kommunikation about the safe use of artificial intelligence in railway operations. The discussion covered the conditions under which machine-learning systems can be deployed in safety-critical railway applications, including the challenge of distribution shift, the need for reliable uncertainty quantification, and how learned components interact with established railway safety processes. The interview is in …

This is a (German) term paper that I wrote in 2019 (in a pre-LLM era) for a seminar on the philosophical aspects of AI. It discusses general strategies for implementing ethical behavior in AI systems at the example of autonomous vehicles. While somewhat outdated, it still constitutes a reasonable introduction to the topic. Einleitung § Lange Zeit galten menschliche Individuen und Gesellschaften als die einzigen intelligenten Entscheidungsträger. Durch die Fortschritte in der Informatik, …