The Moral Machine experiment
2018/10/23 by Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, Richard Kim +6 · 1 voice · 123 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
paper · doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0637-6
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