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They have created a Moral Machine website tool that gives us insight as to what, exactly, the public expects and wants from autonomous cars.
The Moral Machine poses basic choices like whether AI should intervene at all if it will save more lives, or if it should stay passive instead of actively changing events in a way that makes it responsible for someone's death.
In, This new game called the "Moral Machine" from MIT's researchers, a car's breaks fail and you have to choose whether it crashes into a barrier, killing the passengers, or swerves into the cross-walk, killing pedestrians.
MIT, famously, has been running an on-going open-source field study called the Moral Machine, aimed at asking some of the big moral questions these vehicles will ultimately be tasked with executing in a manner of milliseconds.
The Moral Machine game is similar to the infamous trolley problem (a.k.a. would you kill one person to save five?), but calibrated for the autonomous car.
The Moral Machine offers only questions, and you do the answers, but in doing so, it raises awareness of a philosophical dilemma around our increasingly automated technology.
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We do, as I argued here, in 2012, need to learn to build moral machines.
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Gary Marcus, a professor at New York University, has written for newyorker.com about the future of employment in the robot era, the facts and fictions of neuroscience, moral machines, Noam Chomsky, and what needs to be done to clean up science.
Gary Marcus, a professor of psychology at N.Y.U. and the author of "Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical At Any Age," has written for newyorker.com about the facts and fictions of neuroscience; moral machines; and Ray Kurzweil's new book.
Gary Marcus, a professor at N.Y.U. and author of "Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical At Any Age," has written for newyorker.com about Noam Chomsky, the facts and fictions of neuroscience, moral machines, and Ray Kurzweil.
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