Tech Talk #5
Tech Talk:
The Moral Dilemmas of autonomous vehicles
A Conversation with the creators of the moral machine project
MODERATOr:
Topics we’ll explore:
Autonomous Vehicles
Ethics of AI
The Moral Machine experiment
Moral dilemmas and decision-making
And more!
More about the speakers:
Iyad Rahwan: Dr. Rahwan is the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where he founded and directs the Center for Humans & Machines. He is also an honorary professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin. A native of Aleppo, Syria, Dr. Rahwan holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and up until June 2020, he was an Associate Professor of Media Arts & Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His work lies at the intersection of the computer and social sciences, with a focus on collective intelligence, large-scale cooperation, and the social aspects of Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Rahwan led the winning team in the US State Department's Tag Challenge, using social media to locate individuals in remote cities within 12 hours using only their mug shots. Recently, he crowdsourced 40 million decisions from people worldwide about the ethics of AI systems. Dr. Rahwan’s work has appeared in major academic journals, including Science and PNAS, and features regularly in major media outlets, including the New York Times, The Economist, and the Wall Street Journal.
Jean-François Bonnefon: Dr. Bonnefon (Ph.D., cognitive psychology) is a Research Director at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and a former Visiting Scientist at the MIT Media Lab. He is otherwise affiliated to the Toulouse School of Economics, the Toulouse School of Management, the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, and the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute. Dr. Bonnefon works on decision-making and moral preferences, and explores the kind of ethics people want for self-driving cars and other machines.
Azim Shariff: Dr. Azim Shariff is a social psychologist at the University of British Columbia whose research focuses on where morality intersects with religion, cultural attitudes and economics. Another rapidly expanding part of his research looks at human-technology interactions and the ethics of automation, including self-driving cars. Dr. Shariff’s research focuses on where morality intersects with religion, cultural attitudes and economics. Another rapidly expanding part of his research looks at human-technology interactions and the ethics of automation, including self-driving cars.