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第二土周Week Twenty@
第二十周
Week Twenty
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When a driver slams on the brakes to avoid
At least Barbara Wege,who heads a group
hitting a pedestrian crossing the road illegally,she is
working on autonomous-vehicle ethics at Audi in
making a moral decision that shifts risk from the
Ingolstadt,Germany,says such studies are valuable.
pedestrian to the people in the car.Self-driving cars
Wege argues that self-driving cars would cause fewer
might soon have to make such ethical judgments on
accidents,proportionally,than human drivers do
their own-but settling on a universal moral code for
each year-but that people might focus more on
the vehicles could be a tough task,suggests a
events involving robots.
survey.
Surveys such as the Moral Machine can help to
The largest ever survey of machine ethics,
begin public discussions about these unavoidable
called the Moral Machine,laid out 13 possible
accidents that might develop trust."We need to
situations in which someone's death was
come up with a social consensus,"she says,"about
unavoidable.Respondents were asked to choose who
which risks we are willing to take.
to spare in situations that involved a mix of
1.Why is it difficult to set universal moral rules
variables:young or old,rich or poor,more people
for programming self-driving cars?
or fewer.Within 18 months,the online quiz had
A.Social values always change with the times.
recorded 40 million decisions made by people from
B.Moral choices vary between different cultures.
233 countries and territories.
C.Drivers have a preference for sacrificing the
When the researchers analysed these answers,
weak.
they found that the nations could be divided into
D.Car makers are faced with decisions of life or
three groups.One contains North America and
death.
several European nations where Christianity has been
2.The
researchers conducted the study
by
the dominant religion;another includes countries
A.using a massive on