# ethical-engines

**Repository Path**: qiutingli/ethical-engines

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: ethical-engines
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Java
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
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- **Stars**: 0
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- **Created**: 2021-03-25
- **Last Updated**: 2021-03-25

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## README

# Moral Machines
The idea of Moral Machines is based on the Trolley Dilemma, a fictional scenario presenting a decision maker with a moral dilemma: choosing ”the lesser of two evils”. The scenario entails an autonomous car whose brakes fail at a pedestrian crossing. As it is too late to relinquish control to the car’s passengers, the car needs to make a decision based on the facts available about the situation. Figure 1 shows an example scenario. In this project, you will create an Ethical Engine, a program designed to explore different scenarios, build an algorithm to decide between the life of the car’s passengers vs. the life of the pedestrians, audit your decision-making algorithm through simulations, and allow users of your program to judge the outcomes themselves.