What would it take to teach a machine to make ethical decisions? Using neural network technology, a research team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence headed by Dr. Yejin Choi recently ...

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 ...

The first death caused by a self-driving car occurred on Sunday, March 18, 2018. Elaine Herzberg was walking down a street in Tempe, Arizona when an Uber Volvo SUV operating on “fully autonomous mode” ...

If a self-driving car is about to crash into a crowd, and it can only swerve to hit a baby stroller or a large man, whom should it decide to kill? Questions like that were the focus of a massive ...

On first glance, a site that collects people’s opinions about whose life an autonomous car should favor doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. But look closer, and you’ll catch a glimpse of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers often use hypothetical scenarios to understand how people grapple with moral quandaries, but experimental results suggest that these scenarios may not always reflect real-life behavior.

In 2014 the driver of a truck lost his brakes on a hill in Ithaca, N.Y., and had to decide between running over construction workers and plowing into a café. The man chose the latter, and a bartender ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More While autonomous cars still face tremendous technical challenges before ...

In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” By that metric, America (and every other nation that gorges itself ...