ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Moral Machine

Okay kiddo, have you ever played a game where you had to make decisions and choose what to do? Well, the Moral Machine is kind of like that, but it's a game for grown-ups where people have to make tough decisions about what to do in different situations.

The Moral Machine is a special computer game where people have to decide what a self-driving car should do if it had to choose between two bad options. For example, the car might have to choose between hitting a group of people or hitting just one person. It's a really tough decision to make, because either choice could hurt someone.

The people who play the game have to make these tough decisions over and over again, with different scenarios and different choices. The idea is to learn about what people think is right and wrong, and to see what choices are most popular.

It's like a big science experiment to learn what people think about ethics and morals. We can learn a lot about what's important to people, and what they think is the right thing to do in different situations. It can help us understand how to build better self-driving cars that make the right choices in tough situations.

So that's what the Moral Machine is all about. It's a game for grown-ups that helps us learn about what we think is right and wrong, and how we can make the world a better place.