If Buddhist Monks Trained AI
Monks take on the trolley problem, a classic moral dilemma that has big implications for driverless cars.
The Harvard psychologist Joshua Greene is an expert in “trolleyology,” the self-effacing way he describes his research into the manifold variations on the “trolley problem.” The basic form of this problem is simple: There’s a trolley barreling towards five people, who will die if they’re hit. But you could switch the trolley onto another track on which only a single person stands. Should you do it?
From this simple test of moral intuition, researchers like Greene have created an endless).
