Moral Machine's perspective on autonomous vehicles
Artificial intelligence decision-making programming is judged by the public in a new study from a US university.
The public’s perspective on which decisions autonomous cars should make in fatal situations is being surveyed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
MIT’s ‘Moral Machine’ poses numerous scenarios to the public in which an autonomous vehicle would need to decide who to kill. Respondents are given two choices, and in each, lives must be lost – there is no non-fatal option. To make each scenario and the victims of each clear, a written explanation is provided, in addition to the graphic demonstration.
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By Autocar Professional Bureau
10 Aug 2016
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