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Fig. 1: Distribution of explicit preferences stated by Moral Machine users.
Fig. 2: Preferences extracted from the conjoint analysis of the Moral Machine dataset.

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Data and code that can be used to reproduce Figs. 1 and 2 are available at https://bit.ly/2VKyMhJ.

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J.-F.B. acknowledges support from the ANR-Labex Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, the ANR-3IA Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute, and the grant ANR-17-EURE-0010 Investissements d’Avenir. I.R. acknowledges funding from the Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund.

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  1. The Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, Richard Kim & Iyad Rahwan

  2. Department of Economics, University of Exeter Business School, Exeter, UK

    Edmond Awad

  3. Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Jonathan Schulz

  4. Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Joseph Henrich

  5. Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Azim Shariff

  6. Toulouse School of Economics (TSM-R), , CNRS, Université Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France

    Jean-François Bonnefon

  7. Institute for Data, Systems and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Iyad Rahwan

  8. Center for Humans and Machines, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

    Iyad Rahwan

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I.R., A.S. and J.-F.B. planned the research. I.R., A.S., J.-F.B., E.A. and S.D. designed the experiment. E.A. and S.D. built the platform and collected the data. E.A., S.D., R.K., J.S. and A.S. analysed the data. E.A., S.D., R.K., J.S., J.H., A.S., J.-F.B. and I.R interpreted the results and wrote the paper.

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Awad, E., Dsouza, S., Kim, R. et al. Reply to: Life and death decisions of autonomous vehicles. Nature 579, E3–E5 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1988-3

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