The Moral Machine Experiment – Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles. How do different cultures value human life? To find out, researchers created a viral online experiment to gather data from millions of participants across the world. Some values generalised across cultures, but others came as a surprise. When a driver […]
Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens
Altogether over 2 billion people are engaged in systems that embed them in a context of a form of moral accounting – from ‘likes’ to ratings. The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents On June […]