STUDY SHOWS GLOBAL PREFERENCE FOR SAVING YOUNG IN AI CAR CRASH

MORAL MACHINE EXPERIMENT ASKED RESPONDERS TO CHOOSE TO SAVE YOUNGSTERS OR THEIR ELDERS.

The moral dilemma of who to save in a crash has been a longstanding philosophical experiment, but a new study has used this dilemma to survey global preferences in order to train self driving cars. The study found that in a crash situation where only one party could live, people felt that the humans take precedence over animals, a the more numerous group should be saved and youthful should be spared over the elderly.