AIs, Honesty, Murder and Trolleys

[Pomphis]

Originally Posted by jeff_wilson

In US jurisprudence the answer is yes. LEOs are taught that homicide is not justified by the threat of death to people unrelated to the crime, or to the person committing homicide. "Kill X or we'll kill you" is not justified, nor is "kill X or Y dies".

Basically the same in germany, though it´s quite possible that killing X would be rated as manslaughter, not murder.