Ethics and the law - Awad et al., 2018 - Country-level predictors
3 important questions on Ethics and the law - Awad et al., 2018 - Country-level predictors
What does it mean that preferences revealed by the Moral Machine are highly correlated in terms of economic and cultural variations between countries?
The more culturally similar a country is to the United States, the more similarly its people play the Moral Machine.
What are the 4 cultural and economic predictors of Moral Machine preferences and thus important for policymakers to consider?
- Differences between individualistic (Western) and collectivitistic cultures (Southern & Eastern). Individualistic cultures spare greater number of characters; collectivitistic cultures have weaker preference for sparing younger characters.
- Participants from countries that are poorer and suffer from weaker institutions are more tolerant of pedestrians who cross illegally.
- Those from countries with less economic equality between the rich and poor also treat the rich and poor less equally in the moral machine.
- In places where there is less devaluation of women's lives in health and at birth, males are seen as more expendable (replaceable) in Moral Machine decision-making.
What may be an important obstacle due to a split between individualistic and collectivistic cultures for universal machine ethics?
Preference for sparing many and the preference for sparing the young are the most important for policymakers to consider but differ per culture.
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