Moral Machine: Choose who robot cars run over and who they spare

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Moral Machine is a thing that someone at MIT made to answer the question "when faced with a death or death situation, how should a autonomous car choose? Also this autonomous car can somehow look up criminal records and recongize pedestrians quicker than they can apply brakes."
You can take the test and it will ask you to weigh different moral choices.
For example, if an autonomous car is being driven by a criminal, should it plow into a concrete barrier and kill the passenger, or kill a jaywalking dog?

Or what about two passengers vs one jaywalker?

Here’s a homeless man and a criminal that is about to plow into a jaywalking doctor and another jaywalking guy.

It can get pretty nuanced, like this decision of who is more valuable…

…but also a lot of them are super dumb. Like here, where you either stay on the path you are on and kill two kids, a dog, and a homeless man, or you swerve just to kill an extra dog

Anyway it is really interesting and at the end it will give you a summary of how you chose (prefering to protect passengers over pedestrians, young vs old, etc.) and the choices change each time you take it so your results might change drastically each time.

Anyway the real meat and potatoes is the “Design Your Own” feature. This gives you the ability to create your own moral choice, and I guess it gets added to the game maybe? I’m not sure.

Here is a classic case of cats vs dogs

or cats vs jaywalking ladies

Or a killing bunch of babies vs injuring a poor sweet widdle puppy dog

“GTA V Multiplayer Scenario” by @Harrison

And another by @Harrison

Post your results (or not), and make some of your own. Maybe I’ll even send a hat out if I like it enough.