Aurélie Jean
Aurélie Jean
Contributor, The Yuan

Aurélie Jean, a computational scientist, is founder of In Silico Veritas, an adviser for the Boston Consulting Group, and an external collaborator with France’s Ministry of Education.

Who Should Decide How Algorithms Decide?
Cognition
The MIT-hosted ‘Moral Machine’ study has surveyed public preferences regarding how AI applications should behave in various settings over the past few years. One conclusion from the data is that when an autonomous vehicle encounters a life-or-death scenario, how one thinks it should respond depends largely on where one is from, and what one knows about the pedestrians or passengers involved. It is more complicated than one might think.