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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: 2) by deimtee on Tuesday November 01 2016, @05:39AM

    by deimtee (3272) on Tuesday November 01 2016, @05:39AM (#421145) Journal

    I may have skewed my results slightly. I assigned negative value to executives when deciding which option, but all the executives in my scenarios were male. (bit of a sexist assumption there, hey)

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  • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Tuesday November 01 2016, @02:44PM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Tuesday November 01 2016, @02:44PM (#421259)

    Oh yeah. I didn't even cover that part. Mine said that I had a bias for hitting men. Given the three rules I played by, I'd argue that they had a bias for putting men in the wrong lane.

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