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MIT Moral Machine

posted by cmn32480 on Monday October 31 2016, @06:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the explosions-killing-everybody-isn't-a-choice dept.

Researchers at MIT have put together a pictorial survey http://moralmachine.mit.edu/ -- if the self-driving car loses its brakes, should it go straight or turn? Various scenarios are presented with either occupants or pedestrians dying, and there are a variety of peds in the road from strollers to thieves, even pets.

This AC found that I quickly began to develop my own simplistic criteria and the decisions got easier the further I went in the survey.

While the survey is very much idealized, it may have just enough complexity to give some useful results?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Monday October 31 2016, @07:43PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Monday October 31 2016, @07:43PM (#421021)

    Jobs are not the purpose of an economy.

    The purpose of an economy is to allocate our limited resources to server our needs and wants.

    Jobs are a means to an end. If jobs become obsolete, then so does our economy.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @08:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @08:10PM (#421032)

    And why should you decide how resources are allocated? Why should any of you unimportant idiots decide anything?

    Elong Musky wants to plant his seed on Mars. He could do it today if only the rest of you greedy insignificant fools would stop allocating resources to yourselves. Stop impeding Musky!

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by WillR on Monday October 31 2016, @08:34PM

    by WillR (2012) on Monday October 31 2016, @08:34PM (#421037)
    Aye, and one of those scarce resources is the first world lifestyle. Presently, we mostly allocate those to people who win the job game, by landing the highest paying position they can and occupying it as long as possible, as some sort of distant proxy for actual worth as a human (the correlation between the two was poor a hundred years ago, and probably inverted now, but I digress...)