Defining the Dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence – MIT Spectrum

To get at whether there are any guiding ethical principles when it comes to the kinds of ambiguous scenarios a car might face, Rahwan and others in his lab created an online poll of sorts called the Moral Machine, in which participants are presented with morally charged setups similar to the one in the illustration. The Moral Machine went viral. Almost three million people from all over the world have clicked through the scenarios. Rahwan’s team translated the experience into nine languages including Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. They’re still working up the results but a couple of things are clear. “Almost every person has something to say about this,” observes postdo