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JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cstross</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@leeloo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>leeloo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://front-end.social/@heydon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>heydon</span></a></span> </p><p>Perhaps the most interesting thing to read with 7 years of hindsight is the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> paper's note at the end that the self-selected study participants were almost certainly what we would now call "techbros" who swallowed last decade's hyperbole about <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AutonomousVehicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AutonomousVehicles</span></a>, hook, line, and sinker and went to a then-viral pseudo-gaming WWW site to reveal what they thought.</p><p>Perhaps MIT should study how many are *still* thoughtless Elon Musk fans today. (-:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MoralMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoralMachine</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cstross</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@leeloo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>leeloo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://front-end.social/@heydon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>heydon</span></a></span> </p><p>Which leads to a journalistic ethics question for a different <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MoralMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoralMachine</span></a>: On one's quest to promote <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a>'s research in MIT's own magazine, how far should one gloss over the horrific implications of that research?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BadJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadJournalism</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cstross</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@leeloo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>leeloo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://front-end.social/@heydon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>heydon</span></a></span> </p><p>Karen Hao of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> Technology Review presented in 2018 the worldview that there are such things as "jaywalkers" and that there's a different moral question when it comes to killing them. According to Hao parts of the world where jaywalking is not a thing, such as the U.K., are "poorer countries with weaker institutions ". Sadly, this is partly reflective of language also in the original paper (c.f. page 2).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MoralMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoralMachine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AutonomousVehicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AutonomousVehicles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BadJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadJournalism</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cstross</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@leeloo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>leeloo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://front-end.social/@heydon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>heydon</span></a></span> </p><p>So much interesting stuff about that and this thread.</p><p>It's not a real image from the study. It's a cartoon done for that magazine piece by London-based illustrator Simon Landrein, so all of the arguments about the cartoon (trees, curve, pedestrian crossing) aren't responding to what the actual test questions were, which were asked back in 2018 moreover.</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0637-6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-063</span><span class="invisible">7-6</span></a></p><p>Then there's the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BadJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadJournalism</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MoralMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoralMachine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AutonomousVehicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AutonomousVehicles</span></a></p>
scinexx - das wissensmagazin<p>Ist ein Menschenleben weniger wert als viele? Und sind einige schützenswerter als andere? Wie künstliche Intelligenzen sich in diesen moralischen Fragen entscheiden, hat ein Forscher jetzt überprüft. <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KI</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/GPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPT</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Llama2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Llama2</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Ethik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ethik</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/MoralMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoralMachine</span></a><br><a href="https://www.scinexx.de/news/technik/moral-dilemma-wie-entscheiden-kuenstliche-intelligenzen/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scinexx.de/news/technik/moral-</span><span class="invisible">dilemma-wie-entscheiden-kuenstliche-intelligenzen/</span></a></p>
AlkaT<p><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> algorithms "face" ethical choices... how would you approach these... play the <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/moralmachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moralmachine</span></a> and look at some of these questions...</p><p><a href="https://www.moralmachine.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">moralmachine.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Sohan Dsouza<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SERCSymposium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SERCSymposium</span></a> panel on ethics in computing education (surprise mention of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MoralMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoralMachine</span></a>)<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CambridgeMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CambridgeMA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boston</span></a></p>
Sohan Dsouza<p>Well, isn't this giving me <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MoralMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoralMachine</span></a> flashbacks.</p><p>h/t <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AVLZalaZONE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AVLZalaZONE</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/4activeSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>4activeSystems</span></a></p>