Rhetorical Situation Tags Used in Events

I'm Jad Abumrad.

I'm Robert Krulwich. And you know what this is.

My name is Nick Bilton. I'm a special correspondent for Vanity Fair.

The thing that I've been pretty obsessed with lately is actually not fake news, but it's automation and artificial intelligence and driverless cars. Because it's going to have a larger effect on society than any technology that I think has ever been created in the history of mankind. I know that's kind of a bold statement, but ...

All right. You're gonna hear some train tracks. Go there in your mind.

And if having a moral sense is a unique and special human quality then maybe we—us two humans anyway, you and me ...

How do people make this judgment? Forget whether or not these judgments are right or wrong, just what's going on in the brain that makes people distinguish so naturally and intuitively between these two cases, which from an actuarial point of view, are very, very, very similar if not identical?

Well, that's an interesting question. And that's one of the things that we're looking at.

If you ask people in the abstract ...

I'm the co-director of the GM-CMU Connected and Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab.

I think it really has to be an evolutionary process, I believe.

Yes. Oh, this piece was produced by Amanda Aronczyk with help from Bethel Habte. Special thanks to Iyad Rahwan, Edmond Awad and Sydney Levine from The Moral Machine Group, MIT. Also thanks to Sertac Karaman, Xin Xiang and Roborace for all their help. And I guess we should go now.

I'm Jad Abumrad.

I'm Jad Abumrad.

I'm Robert Krulwich.

I'm Jad Abumrad.

I'm Robert Krulwich. And you know what this is.

My name is Nick Bilton. I'm a special correspondent for Vanity Fair.

The thing that I've been pretty obsessed with lately is actually not fake news, but it's automation and artificial intelligence and driverless cars. Because it's going to have a larger effect on society than any technology that I think has ever been created in the history of mankind. I know that's kind of a bold statement, but ...

All right. You're gonna hear some train tracks. Go there in your mind.

And if having a moral sense is a unique and special human quality then maybe we—us two humans anyway, you and me ...

How do people make this judgment? Forget whether or not these judgments are right or wrong, just what's going on in the brain that makes people distinguish so naturally and intuitively between these two cases, which from an actuarial point of view, are very, very, very similar if not identical?

Well, that's an interesting question. And that's one of the things that we're looking at.

If you ask people in the abstract ...

I'm the co-director of the GM-CMU Connected and Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab.

I think it really has to be an evolutionary process, I believe.

Yes. Oh, this piece was produced by Amanda Aronczyk with help from Bethel Habte. Special thanks to Iyad Rahwan, Edmond Awad and Sydney Levine from The Moral Machine Group, MIT. Also thanks to Sertac Karaman, Xin Xiang and Roborace for all their help. And I guess we should go now.

I'm Jad Abumrad.

I'm Jad Abumrad.

I'm Robert Krulwich.