人们对自主机器的道德决策期望的探索性研究

An Exploratory Research on People’s Moral Decision-Making Expectation for Autonomous Machines

研究探讨了人们对自主机器的道德决策期望。113名被试参加了本研究,以分析人们期望自主机器面对人类命令与道德规范之间的冲突时如何决策。研究将人类命令区分为具有道德或不道德的意图。结果发现,不管人类命令的意图是否道德,人们总是期望自主机器选择绝对地遵守道德规范,而非人类的命令。

The current research explores people’s expectations of moral decision-making of autonomous machines. 113 participants participated in this study for analyzing how autonomous machines are expected to make decisions in the face of conflicts between human commands and ethical norms. Given that their owners’ orders violating moral norms can be out of both immoral intentions and moral intentions, this study also explored whether the valence of intentions would make a difference. It was revealed that regardless of owner’s intentions, people always expected autonomous machines to comply with moral norms when their master’s orders conflict with moral norms.