'Moral machine' experiment is no basis for policymaking.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Large-scale moral machine experiment on large language models.PloS one · 2025
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2. 'That's just weird': A qualitative investigation into expert opinions on the difference between autonomous vehicles and humans deciding to kill.PloS one · 2025
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3. The moral machine experiment on large language models.Royal Society open science · 2024
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4. From driverless dilemmas to more practical commonsense tests for automated vehicles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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5. Ethical dilemmas are really important to potential adopters of autonomous vehicles.Ethics and information technology · 2021
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6. Triage 4.0: On Death Algorithms and Technological Selection. Is Today's Data- Driven Medical System Still Compatible with the Constitution?Journal of European CME · 2021
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Authors and funding

3 authors.

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Abstract

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