Is society ready for AI ethical decision making? Lessons from a study on autonomous cars

J Caro-Burnett, S Kaneko - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental …, 2022 - Elsevier
We conduct two separate experiments to study the social acceptance of AI ethical decision
making. In the first experiment, we test whether there is an “unfounded” fear of technology …

Rage against the machine: Automation in the moral domain

J Gogoll, M Uhl - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
The introduction of ever more capable autonomous systems is moving at a rapid pace. The
technological progress will enable us to completely delegate to machines processes that …

A moral decision-making study of autonomous vehicles: Expertise predicts a preference for algorithms in dilemmas

A Zhu, S Yang, Y Chen, C Xing - Personality and Individual Differences, 2022 - Elsevier
Research has identified some individual and situational factors that relate to the public's
preference for autonomous vehicles (AVs) in moral dilemmas. The present study shows that …

Collective reflective equilibrium in practice (CREP) and controversial novel technologies

J Savulescu, C Gyngell, G Kahane - Bioethics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we investigate how data about public preferences may be used to inform policy
around the use of controversial novel technologies, using public preferences about …

From public preferences to ethical policy

J Savulescu, G Kahane, C Gyngell - Nature human behaviour, 2019 - nature.com
Studies have provided rich data on global preferences for how autonomous vehicles should
act in collisions. We describe a framework for incorporating such preferences in policy …

Social choice ethics in artificial intelligence

SD Baum - Ai & Society, 2020 - Springer
A major approach to the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) is to use social choice, in which
the AI is designed to act according to the aggregate views of society. This is found in the AI …

Performative quantification: design choices impact the lessons of empirical surveys about the ethics of autonomous vehicles

H Etienne, F Cova - Social Science Computer Review, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, researchers have emphasized the relevance of data about commonsense
moral judgments for ethical decision-making, notably in the context of debates about …

[HTML][HTML] Autonomous systems in ethical dilemmas: Attitudes toward randomization

A Bodenschatz, M Uhl, G Walkowitz - Computers in Human Behavior …, 2021 - Elsevier
It is ethically debatable whether autonomous systems should be programmed to actively
impose harm on some to avoid greater harm for others. Surveys on ethical dilemmas in self …

Human decision-making biases in the moral dilemmas of autonomous vehicles

DA Frank, P Chrysochou, P Mitkidis, D Ariely - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The development of artificial intelligence has led researchers to study the ethical principles
that should guide machine behavior. The challenge in building machine morality based on …

Fear of AI: an inquiry into the adoption of autonomous cars in spite of fear, and a theoretical framework for the study of artificial intelligence technology acceptance

F Cugurullo, RA Acheampong - AI & SOCIETY, 2023 - Springer
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of the everyday. During this transition, people's
intention to use AI technologies is still unclear and emotions such as fear are influencing it …