{"id":1260,"date":"2020-01-15T01:03:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T01:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/2020\/01\/15\/mit-reveals-who-self-driving-cars-should-kill-the-cat-the-elderly-or-the-baby\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T01:03:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T01:03:29","slug":"mit-reveals-who-self-driving-cars-should-kill-the-cat-the-elderly-or-the-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/2020\/01\/15\/mit-reveals-who-self-driving-cars-should-kill-the-cat-the-elderly-or-the-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT reveals who self-driving cars should kill: The cat, the elderly, or the baby?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"lazyloadImages\" data-lazyload-images-options=\"{&quot;threshold&quot;:500}\">\n<div class=\"shortcode video large\">\n<p>            <svg class=\"svg-symbol playerControls\"><symbol id=\"play\" viewbox=\"0 0 26.6 32\"><path 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Waymo is set to strike a deal with Honda that would put its self-driving technology in a new delivery-focused product, according to Bloomberg. Read more: https:\/\/zd.net\/2EeXL3R<\/span><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2018\/04\/04\/013326c5-43c4-4a40-8f3c-99be4a47839c\/thumbnail\/570x322\/bcb864944b662f0d30c511e2ebd24f3f\/5ac4262760b2b649a13b6c0d-1280x7201apr04201813110poster.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2020-01-15T01:03:29Z\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1233M20S\"\/><link itemprop=\"embedUrl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/video\/share\/waymo-and-honda-to-partner-on-autonomous-delivery-vehicle\/\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t 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 five people or one, what would you do?<\/p>\n<p>\t Extend this to cars: would we prefer an out-of-control vehicle to mow down a pensioner or a child?<\/p>\n<p>\tA spin-off of the classic trolley problem has been used by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab in an experiment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612341\/a-global-ethics-study-aims-to-help-ai-solve-the-self-driving-trolley-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">called the Moral Machine<\/a>, which has been designed to test how we view these moral problems in light of the emergence of self-driving cars.<\/p>\n<p>\t The Moral Machine crowdsourced over 40 million moral decisions made by millions of individuals in 233 countries. These decisions were collected through the gamification of self-driving car accident scenarios, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Should a self-driving vehicle &#8216;choose&#8217; to hit a human or a pet? <\/li>\n<li>More lives, or fewer?<\/li>\n<li>Women or men?<\/li>\n<li>The young or the old?<\/li>\n<li>Law-abiding citizens, or criminals?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t In addition, the game prompted responses as to whether the self-driving car should change its course in the face of an upcoming incident at all, or whether it should stay on course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/fords-self-driving-cars-hit-the-road-in-miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ford&#8217;s self-driving cars to become Miami&#8217;s new pizza delivery guy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t In reality, human drivers could think about how they would act in such scenarios, but they only have the time to make split-second decisions. However, self-driving cars could, in theory, be programmed with a kind of moral spectrum as to how to make these decisions.<\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_zd_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\">\n<\/section>\n<p>\tThe Moral Machine did not use one-to-one scenarios. Instead, the experiment emulated what could be a real-life scenario, such as a group of bystanders or a parent and child on the road.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TechRepublic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/our-autonomous-future-how-driverless-cars-will-be-the-first-robots-we-learn-to-trust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Our autonomous future: How driverless cars will be the first robots we learn to trust<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tIn general, we agreed across the world that sparing the lives of humans over animals should take priority; many people should be saved rather than few, and the young should be preserved over the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>\tHowever, there were also some regional clusters which contributed to the general moral decisions. For example, individuals in &#8216;southern&#8217; countries, including the African continent, preferred to save the young and women first, especially in comparison to those in &#8216;eastern&#8217; countries, such as countries in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\t&#8220;The study is basically trying to understand the kinds of moral decisions that driverless cars might have to resort to,&#8221; says Edmond Awad, a postdoc at the MIT Media Lab and lead author of the paper &#8220;We don&#8217;t know yet how they should do that.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>CNET: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/roadshow\/news\/waymo-self-driving-cars-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-component=\"externalLink\">Waymo explains what its self-driving cars should do when pulled over<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The crowdsourced project has raised some interesting questions when it comes to writing moral decisions into software, and if self-driving cars become a common feature of our roads, this issue has to be tackled in some way. <\/p>\n<p>Obstacles will appear and accidents will happen &#8212; and it may be a requirement for the moral preferences of self-driving vehicles to be discussed in the public sphere.<\/p>\n<p>\t However, morality is flexible and human decision-making is always going to be different to what a vehicle is able to achieve &#8212; and so, perhaps, such decisions will end up simply being made based on human or animal, and the number of individuals a vehicle could potentially hit.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe research has been published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-018-0637-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">academic journal Nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Previous and related coverage<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/mit-reveals-who-self-driving-cars-should-kill-the-cat-the-elderly-or-the-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Waymo and Honda to partner on autonomous delivery vehicle Google-unit Waymo is set to strike a deal with Honda that would put its self-driving technology in a new delivery-focused product, according to Bloomberg. 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