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RE: Can AI be trained to assist with moral decision making?
This also depends a lot on the economic situation. For example, you talked about stealing, but in a Post-scarcity economy for example, everything would be abundant, and everyone would therefore be well fed. Now about a self driving car deciding which person(s) to save, is a bit tough. But maybe, in the future, we could have technology which is so safe, that the possibility of killing someone would be impossible.
Yeah ok, in post scarcity. We can also talk about the economy on Mars in 500 years but the problem is we don't live on Mars right now and we don't live in a post scarcity world right now. So in the current environment where we do have people who starve or who are freezing to death homeless on the street we really have to focus on what is the immediate concern.
The possibility of accident never reaches 0. There is always some probability of failure in anything. The key is whether we can make it a much lower probability that the machine AI will fail vs a human driver. Humans drive drunk, humans chat on their phones, humans have a high error rate while driving. If the rate is lower than that of a human then I'll trust the machine more, because I trust the math more than my feelings.
We could have post-scarcity economy pretty soon though. As early as in 2050 according to this article, http://edujob.gr/sites/default/files/epagg_prooptikes/The%20Post-Scarcity%20World%20of%202050-2075.pdf
Could, but we probably will not. Let me know when we have basic income.