Lab Activity: Digital Humanities : Moral Machine

This Lab activity assigned by Dr. Dilip Barad.

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1. Experience & Learning Outcome of Moral Machine Activity

Doing the Moral Machine Activity was an eye-opening experience. It placed me in difficult moral dilemmas where I had to decide between saving passengers or pedestrians, the young or the elderly, humans or animals, and people following rules versus those breaking them.

I realized that such decisions are not simple—different cultures, values, and emotions influence our judgments. This made me aware of how AI (like self-driving cars) will also need to be programmed with moral decisions, and it raised the question: whose morality should machines follow?

My learning outcome is that ethics in AI is not only about technology but also about human values, philosophy, and cultural perspectives.

Here is my result