Driverless Dilemma | Radiolab Podcast

From the Radiolab podcast: Most of us would sacrifice one life to save five, but what if that one had to die by your hand?
Most of us would sacrifice one person to save five. It’s a pretty straightforward bit of moral math. But if we have to actually kill that person ourselves, the math gets fuzzy.
That’s the lesson of the classic Trolley Problem, a moral puzzle that fried our brains in an episode we did almost 20 years ago, then updated again in 2017. Historically, the questions posed by The Trolley Problem are great for thought experimentation and conversations at a certain kind of cocktail party. Now, new technologies are forcing that moral quandary out of our philosophy departments and onto our streets.
So today, we revisit the Trolley Problem and wonder how a two-ton hunk of speeding metal will make moral calculations about life and death that still baffle its creators.
Special thanks to Iyad Rahwan, Edmond Awad and Sydney Levine from the Moral Machine group at MIT. Also thanks to Fiery Cushman, Matthew DeBord, Sertac Karaman, Martine Powers, Xin Xiang, and Roborace for all of their help. Thanks to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism students who collected the vox: Chelsea Donohue, Ivan Flores, David Gentile, Maite Hernandez, Claudia Irizarry-Aponte, Comice Johnson, Richard Loria, Nivian Malik, Avery Miles, Alexandra Semenova, Kalah Siegel, Mark Suleymanov, Andee Tagle, Shaydanay Urbani, Isvett Verde and Reece Williams.
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Guests in this episode include: Nick Bilton, Josh Greene, Christoph von Hugo from Mercedes Benz, Michael Taylor, Amanda Aronczyk, Raj Rajkumar, Bill Ford Jr.
Photo illustration Jared Bartman

[@jordanschultz2232]

Such a great episode.. makes me want to go back and relisten to all the old ones

[@patchhabits8366]

Chat GPT recommended me this podcast =O

[@icecreamtruckog3667]

Eventually driverless cars will be better than people, or all cars will have faster than race car drivers reflexes but until then there will be mistakes like the Tesla that took killed it's driver when it did not stop when a tanker was crossing the road, it took the roof clean off.

[@stephenkohler3472]

I'm the one out of 10 that wouldn't pull the lever. It feels no different than pushing someone onto the tracks.

[@ZinSchartz-tl9kd]

13:51 Human Brain 🧠 Elephant Brain 🧠 Same Pound but elephant eating Opium..as you like to Work.but human Brain 72Pounds. Rem..

[@ryarbrough1195]

...sorta Sophie's Choice 😐

[@nibblesnbits]

I miss hearing Robert in the show

[@nicholjackson8388]

😢hate to be the guy they kill.

[@littlemissevel3607]

He thinks he got his morality from a piece of rock? Come on what kind of science is that?