AI Ethical decision making: is society ready?

This summary reviews research at Hiroshima University addressing the question of whether society is willing to accept AI decision-making. In their multi-country study of human interaction with autonomous cars. 

The researchers ran two experiments, the first designed to measure the bias people might have against AI ethical decision-making, and the second to test the effect of two alternative ways of introducing AI into society. 

They find that people do not seem to show bias against AI ethical decision-making but rather an aversion to AI. The extent of this bias varies both with national culture and the degree of economic development.