What would it take to teach a machine to make ethical decisions? Using neural network technology, a research team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence headed by Dr. Yejin Choi recently ...

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Researchers have developed a new experiment to better understand what people view as moral and immoral decisions related to driving vehicles, with the goal of collecting data to train autonomous ...

In today's interconnected world, leaders frequently encounter dilemmas where moral convictions intersect with economic realities. Just how can they best manage this intricate balance and negotiate the ...

BRUSSELS — Is “following orders” a valid excuse for abandoning our moral compass? In a new study from Belgium, researchers watched people’s brains in real-time as they chose whether to inflict pain on ...

Traditional tools amplified human intent but did not make independent choices. A hammer does not decide what to build. But modern AI systems do more than follow rules. They learn from data, adapt to ...

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Ann Skeet is the senior director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. “If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good ...