Tutorial 6 - Article 2 - The Moral Machine

Question 1

What is the problem with AI and machines in terms of decision-making?

Answer 1

We need to learn them to behave ‘ethically’, but can we agree on the correct ethical decisions for machines to make?

Question 2

What is an example of ethical decision-making by machines?

Answer 2

Self-driving cars: run over an elderly or a child? prioritize saving child?

Question 3

What is the moral machine experiment?

Answer 3

An online experiment that collects large-scale data on how citizens would want autonomous vehicles to solve moral dilemmas in the context of unavoidable accidents

Question 4

What are some global preferences of the moral machine experiment?

Answer 4

1) Saving humans over animals
2) Sparing more lives over fewer lives
3) Sparing young lives over older lives
4) sparing pedestrians vs passengers
5) sparing lawful vs unlawful

Question 5

What about cluster preferences regarding young vs. old?

Answer 5

Preference to spare younger characters and higher status characters is much weaker in the Eastern cluster and higher for the southern cluster

Question 6

What about cluster preferences regarding sparing humans vs. pets?

Answer 6

Much weaker in the southern cluster

Question 7

What about cluster preferences regarding men vs women and fit vs unfit?

Answer 7

Southern cluster strong preference for saving women and fit characters

Question 8

How do individualistic and collectivistic cultures differ?

Answer 8

Individualistic cultures show a stronger preference for saving the greater number of characters, while participants from collectivistic cultures (which emphasize respect for the elderly) show a weaker preference for sparing younger characters