Name: Decision-Making: From Humans to Robots
Start: 2016-05-25T
End: 2016-05-25T
Location: The Horseshoe

How our brain can trick us? How do we deal with the ethical uncertainty in our lives? Will robots be good to us? Albert (PhD researcher) and Peter (Professor in Psychology) will take you on a tour through the world of cognitive science. From illusions, fallacies and the errors of our mind to decision-making, morality and robots. During the event there will be games and special Pint of Science goodies to be won!

Does Humanity Want Robots Making Moral Decisions?

Albert Barqué-Duran (PhD in Psychology)

A runaway trolley is approaching a fork in the tracks. If the trolley is allowed to on its current track, a work crew of five will be killed. If the driver steers the train down the other branch, a lone worker will be killed. If you were driving this trolley what would you do? What would a computer or robot driving this trolley do? Autonomous systems (machines, robots, bots, etc.) are coming whether people like it or not. Will they be ethical? Will they be good? And what do we mean by “good”?

Getting it wrong: are the mind’s illusions clues?

Professor Peter Ayton (Associate Dean Research & Deputy Dean Social Sciences)

Psychologists study errors, fallacies and illusions in order to gain access to the workings of the mind. Despite the multitude of known visual illusions people rarely feel visually challenged as a result of experiencing them. However, fallacies of thinking - “cognitive illusions” – have a more disconcerting effect. Why do people typically feel embarrassed by cognitive illusions – but often find visual illusions mildly enjoyable experiences? Here I will discuss some “cognitive illusions” and consider what they reveal about the psychology of thought.

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