Automakers and regulators have been grappling with how to best program autonomous vehicles to handle ethical dilemmas, and now a group of MIT researchers is hoping to give the public a say in the ...

In 2016, researchers from the MIT Media Lab launched an experiment. They wanted to understand how people wanted self-driving cars to act, so they built a website where anyone could experience 13 ...

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In 2016, researchers at CNRS (members of TSE - Université Toulouse Capitole), MIT, Harvard University and the University of British Columbia launched the "Moral Machine" online platform to ask users ...

The Moral Machine Experiment highlights the cultural and economic variations between countries responding to the ethical dilemma. As autonomous vehicles become more ubiquitous, thinking about the ...

It is a classic problem and a test of where our morality lies: if a runaway trolley is uncontrollably heading down a set of tracks and you have the ability to use a lever and choose between either ...

The "Trolley Problem" is a famous ethical dilemma about killing one person to save others. A group of MIT researchers recently applied it to the world of self-driving cars, posing a series of ...

Morality and artificial intelligence have a contentious, and perhaps even an antagonistic relationship. Yet, artificial intelligence (AI) itself cannot have morality – for it is a machine. However, AI ...

A self-driving car is crashing on a busy street. Who does it kill? Who does it save? Your answer will be shaped by where you live, says an MIT study.