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Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you're from.:
In 2014 researchers at the MIT Media Lab designed an experiment called Moral Machine. The idea was to create a game-like platform that would crowdsource people's decisions on how self-driving cars should prioritize lives in different variations of the "trolley problem." In the process, the data generated would provide insight into the collective ethical priorities of different cultures.
The researchers never predicted the experiment's viral reception. Four years after the platform went live, millions of people in 233 countries and territories have logged 40 million decisions, making it one of the largest studies ever done on global moral preferences.
A new paper published in Nature presents the analysis of that data and reveals how much cross-cultural ethics diverge on the basis of culture, economics, and geographic location.
[...] Awad hopes the results will also help technologists think more deeply about the ethics of AI beyond self-driving cars. "We used the trolley problem because it's a very good way to collect this data, but we hope the discussion of ethics don't stay within that theme," he said. "The discussion should move to risk analysis—about who is at more risk or less risk—instead of saying who's going to die or not, and also about how bias is happening." How these results could translate into the more ethical design and regulation of AI is something he hopes to study more in the future.
"In the last two, three years more people have started talking about the ethics of AI," Awad said. "More people have started becoming aware that AI could have different ethical consequences on different groups of people. The fact that we see people engaged with this—I think that that's something promising."
Journal Reference:
Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, Richard Kim, et al. The Moral Machine experiment, Nature (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0637-6)
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday January 29 2021, @06:03PM (1 child)
Imagine importing a car from, say, Japan to the US (or vice versa). Could be a move up the ladder in come mega-corp. Could be a career change.
That's very simple: you don't! You can't do it now, so what makes you think it should be possible with self-driving cars? Japan drives on the left, not the right, and while you technically *can* import a US can there, it's very difficult and costly, and only rich people do it to show off, so it's very rare. Normal people are just going to sell their US car in the US, move to the foreign country, and buy a car there. There's many things on cars that frequently do not meet other countries' safety standards, such as taillights (in the US, they can all be red, in other countries, the turn signals have to be amber), bumper height (US requires higher bumpers than European cars), etc.
Also, getting a license to drive in Japan is very difficult and very costly (thousands of US dollars). And you won't pass if you can't read Japanese road signs. But if you're taking a new job at some mega-corp in Japan, you don't need to drive anyway: you just take the train and walk to work, since all the mega-corps' offices are in big cities.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 29 2021, @08:19PM
You insensitive clod! I live in Brexit!