Tuesday, October 30, 2018

In a Crash, Should Self-Driving Cars Save Passengers or Pedestrians? 2 Million People Weigh In - Slashdot

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"In what is referred to as the "Moral Machine Experiment", a survey of more than two million people from nearly every country on the planet, people preferred to save humans over animals, young over old, and more people over fewer
From a report:Since 2016, scientists have posed this scenario to folks around the world through the "Moral Machine," an online platform hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that gauges how humans respond to ethical decisions made by artificial intelligence.
...The Moral Machine uses a quiz to give participants randomly generated sets of 13 questions. 
Each scenario has two choices: You save the car's passengers or you save the pedestrians. However, the characteristics of the passengers and pedestrians varied randomly -- including by gender, age, social status and physical fitness. What they found: The researchers identified three relatively universal preferences..."Read on!

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