Comment by unglaublich

3 years ago

So, you would flip the railroad switch to kill only 1 instead of 5 helpless people?

MIT recreated this thought experiment to research the “morality” in autonomous vehicles.

https://www.moralmachine.net/

  • It interprets telling the vehicle to crash into a barrier rather than hit pedestrians as not placing as much value on protecting passengers. But really, this is just a recognition that the passengers are far more protected in a crash than the pedestrian are when getting hit by the car. Instead of a barrier, it should be a large cliff or something.