Iyad Rahwan - MIT Media Lab
The Psychological Dilemmas of Autonomous Vehicles
Date: 02/27/2017 (Mon)
Time: 12:00pm- 1:00pm
Location: Seminar will be held on-site: D106 LSRC
Organizer: Vince Conitzer
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12:00pm - Seminar Presentation (12:00pm to 1:00pm)
Additional Comments: Autonomous vehicles promise to revolutionize transportation and substantially improve safety. But they also made salient an ethical question: how should an algorithm decide relative risk in situations of unavoidable harm? I present a series of psychological studies that explore how people think about such scenarios, and discuss the regulatory challenges these studies reveal. I also describe a crowdsourcing effort that engaged millions of people worldwide with the ethical questions facing car markers and regulators.