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The Moral Machine Experiment, Edmond Awad

13 November 2019, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm

LJDM

London Judgment and Decision Making Seminar: "The Moral Machine Experiment", Edmond Awad

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Lara Kirfel

Location

Room 313
Psychology Department
26 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0DS
United Kingdom

Edmond Awad (University of Exeter)

The Moral Machine Experiment

I describe the Moral Machine, an internet-based serious game exploring the many-dimensional ethical dilemmas faced by autonomous vehicles. The game enabled us to gather 40 million decisions from 3 million people in 200 countries/territories. I report the various preferences estimated from this data, and document interpersonal differences in the strength of these preferences. I also report cross-cultural ethical variation and uncover major clusters of countries exhibiting substantial differences along key moral preferences. These differences correlate with modern institutions, but also with deep cultural traits. I discuss how these three layers of preferences can help progress toward global, harmonious, and socially acceptable principles for machine ethics. Finally, I describe other follow up work that build on this project.