6th Episode: The Moral Machine

In the sixth episode we explore the interrelations between humans and machines together with Iyad Rahwan who is director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where he founded and directs the Center for Humans & Machines. Our conversation will guide us from what experiments can offer with a view to challenging our assumptions about our individual and collective understanding of “being in the world” and where its limits are. Iyad reminds us of the importance of remaining conscious of the inescapable embeddedness of the knowledge we create in other disciplines and epistemologies but also encourages us to engage in more creative future “worlding” by turning to Science Fiction Science.  

 Additional Material: 

• Awad, E., Dsouza, S., Kim, R., Schulz, J., Henrich, J., Shariff, A., Bonnefon, J.-F., & Rahwan, I. (2018). The Moral Machine experiment. Nature, 563, 59–64. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0637-6
• Rahwan, I. et al. (2019). Machine behaviour. Nature, 568(7753), 477–486. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1138-y
• Rahwan, I. Shariff, A., Bonnefon, J.-F, Science Fiction Science,  (in preparation for publication in 2025) 

The Episode is also available on Spotify.