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.
Date: 3 November 2022, 17:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: St Cross Room
Speaker: Dr Edmond Awad (University of Exeter)
Organising department: Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Organiser: Dr Doug McConnell (University of Oxford)
Part of: New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/event/mt22-st-cross-seminar-dr-edmond-awad
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Rachel Gaminiratne