Title | Duty Ethics - Debate | ![]() |
Duration | 55 | |
Module | A | |
Lesson Type | Interactive Session | |
Focus | Ethical - Ethics Fundamentals | |
Topic | Ethics of self-driving cars |
Duty ethics,self-driving cars,moral trade-off,
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The materials of this learning event are available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Students should form a group of 3-4 and try to discuss about a fake scenario case, trying to stress-out positives and failures of designing a self-driving vehicle following duty ethics principles from different viewpoints (e.g. passenger, pedestrian). You should try helping them answering to several questions regarding this topic, for example:
What do you think?
It is important to have a debate beside a guided discussion.
In the end, you may help your students with a final exercise. Using moral machine platform, students will face moral dilemmas, where a driverless car must choose the lesser of two evils in an inevitable collision scenario. As an outside observer, the two groups will judge which outcome is more acceptable and confront their results.
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The Human-Centered AI Masters programme was co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union Under Grant №CEF-TC-2020-1 Digital Skills 2020-EU-IA-0068. The materials of this learning event are available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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