CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS – Over the past few years, the MIT-hosted “Moral Machine” study has surveyed public preferences regarding how artificial intelligence applications should behave in various settings.
One conclusion from the data is that when an autonomous vehicle (AV) encounters a life-or-death scenario, how one thinks it should respond depends largely on where one is from, and what one knows about the pedestrians or passengers involved.
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