October 26, 2018

  • Huge online Trolley Problem survey reveals people’s cultural bias

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    Driverless cars may soon have to make life-and-death decisionsDAREKM101/Getty
    By Chelsea Whyte of  NewScientist

    A SELF-DRIVING car is travelling along a two-lane road when its brakes fail. Should it stay in lane and hit a pregnant woman, a doctor and a criminal on a pedestrian crossing, or swerve and hit a barrier, killing the family of four in the vehicle?

    This derivative of the classic Trolley Problem is the kind of scenario that makes up the Moral Machine experiment, an ethics survey of millions of people from 233 countries and territories around the world. Participants were asked to consider different scenarios in which those who might be saved could be, say, fit or fat, young or old, pets, criminals or those with high-status jobs. In all, 40 million decisions were collected.

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