How virtue signalling makes us better: Moral preferences with respect to autonomous vehicle type choices
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F22%3A10452294" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/22:10452294 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68378122:_____/22:00566561 RIV/60076658:12260/22:43906098
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=NJQyi7mcPO" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=NJQyi7mcPO</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01461-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00146-022-01461-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How virtue signalling makes us better: Moral preferences with respect to autonomous vehicle type choices
Original language description
One of the moral questions concerning autonomous vehicles (henceforth AVs) is the choice between types that differ in their built-in algorithms for dealing with rare situations of unavoidable lethal collision. It does not appear to be possible to avoid questions about how these algorithms should be designed. We present the results of our study of moral preferences (N = 2769) with respect to three types of AVs: (1) selfish, which protects the lives of passenger(s) over any number of bystanders; (2) altruistic, which minimizes the number of casualties, even if this leads to death of passenger(s); and (3) conservative, which abstains from interfering in such situations. We differentiate between scenarios in which participants are to make their decisions privately or publicly, and for themselves or for their offspring. We aim to answer two research questions: (1) whether the public visibility of the choice of an AV type choice make this choice more altruistic and (2) which type of situation makes it more difficult to choose altruistically: when choosing for society as a whole, when choosing only for oneself, or when choosing only for one's offspring. Our results show that respondents exhibit a preference for an altruistic strategy for AVs and that it is reinforced when signaled to others. The altruistic preference is strongest when applies to everybody else, weaker when it reflects a solely personal choice, and weakest when choosing for one's own child. We conclude that a public choice is considerably more likely to pressure consumers into accepting a more socially beneficial solution.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/TL01000467" target="_blank" >TL01000467: Ethics of autonomous vehicles</a><br>
Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
AI & Society
ISSN
0951-5666
e-ISSN
1435-5655
Volume of the periodical
38
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
937-946
UT code for WoS article
000799082900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85129821474