How Should Self-Driving Cars Choose Who Not to Kill?

A popular MIT quiz asked ordinary people to make ethical judgments for machines

MORGAN MEAKER
OneZero
Published in
5 min readFeb 15, 2019

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Credit: Scalable Cooperation/MIT Media Lab

If an automated car had to choose between crashing into a barrier, killing its three female passengers, or running over one child in the street — which call should it make?

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MORGAN MEAKER
OneZero

British Journalist. Mostly human rights in Europe and the Middle East. Working with @Guardian @Reuters @BBC etc