1 Survey overview
"The ultimate choice that everyone faces" Aug2022 collects and discusses the "ultimate choice" that everyone thinks.
We face various “ultimate choices”, including the corona misfortune. Some Ultimate Choices require social consensus, but when faced with these Ultimate Choices, we are stunned.
Therefore, the purpose of this research is to extract the "ultimate choice" hidden in society in advance and draw a tentative conclusion so that we can deal with it without being stunned even if we are forced to make the "ultimate choice." It will serve as a foundation for social decision-making to deal with the ultimate choice, preparing for the next pandemic, other emergencies, and even a future where AI may make social decisions for us. .
The survey period is from August 19th (Friday) to September 6th (Tuesday), but you can participate in the middle.
If you would like to participate after reading "About this survey" described below, please let us know your email address using the form below. (Recruitment has ended)
2 About this survey
The Ultimate Choice Study Group (former name: Kyoto University Ultimate Choice Research Light Unit) is engaged in research on difficult social issues that are difficult to reach consensus on. For example, in the corona crisis that began in 2020, there were many conflicting issues such as the priority of vaccines and the priority of infection prevention and economic activity. However, people's ideas vary widely, and social consensus is not easily achieved. In this way, we are studying the "ultimate choice" that causes conflict and is difficult to reach social consensus.
Therefore, the purpose of this research is to extract the "ultimate choice" hidden in society in advance and draw a provisional conclusion so that we can deal with such a choice without being stunned. It will serve as a foundation for social decision-making that addresses the ultimate choice, preparing for the next pandemic or other emergency, and even for a future where AI may make social decisions for us.
(1) Survey purpose and significance
The corona crisis is a threat common to all humankind and a problem that has affected everyone. However, despite the fact that the Covid-19 pandemic is a matter of life and death for us, we have had few opportunities to express our opinions about it.
There are countless “ultimate choices” like this hidden in our society, not just the corona misfortune. However, our society is not ready for a myriad of Ultimate Choices. Even if you start thinking about it after facing 《Ultimate Choice》, it will be difficult to make a better choice.
Therefore, in this survey, we will collect and manifest the "ultimate choice" that you think. After that, I draw tentative conclusions about Ultimate Choice.
The results of the survey will serve as materials for social consensus and better choices for the "ultimate choice" that will be faced with reality in the future.
(2) Research background
Confusion in the COVID-19 Pandemic
The corona crisis has brought many challenges. In the medical field, the question arose as to who should be treated. Alternatively, there was the issue of who should be inoculating the limited number of vaccines. Alternatively, the question of whether the impoverished lockdown should continue, even if it is to prevent infection, has often been raised. There are no absolute correct answers to these. Therefore, in order to make better choices, it is necessary to understand the difference and distribution of the "right choices" that individuals think.
Frequent occurrence of the "Hardest choice
The "Hardest choice" does not occur only in the case of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The "Hardest choice" will occur in many areas, and similar confusion will also occur. Therefore, in order to deal with similar problems, it is necessary to understand people's thoughts on the "Hardest choice" that arose from the coronal disaster.
Emergence of AI
In recent years, the progress of AI has been remarkable, and it is expected that AI will eventually be involved in social decisions. Regarding the “ultimate choice” in a pandemic, it is expected that eventually AI will give advice to humans and AI itself will make decisions. Of course, AI does not make decisions from scratch without any material. AI performs machine learning on human decision data and makes decisions based on that data. So if human decision data is biased, AI decisions will be biased. Therefore, if AI learns the government's judgment as it is, the measures that everyone is dissatisfied with will be repeated as they are. So, we need to collect your “right choices” to explore what data should be for AI and how to collect it better.
(3) Survey method
In this survey, you write down and discuss your "ultimate choices."
Please register on the system called D-agree and make comments and replies on the system. note thatThis system was developed by Professor Takayuki Ito of Kyoto University.It is equipped with AI, and AI also facilitates.
There is no reward for participating in this survey.
(4) Survey implementation period
The survey period is from Friday, August 19th to Tuesday, September 6th.
・From August 19th (Friday) to September 2nd (Friday) at 24:00, use D-agree to collect the “ultimate choice” that you think of.
・From September 3rd (Sat) to 24:00 on September 6th (Tue), we will present the “ultimate choices” collected above as questions in a Google form and investigate your choices.
(5) Survey participants
This survey does not limit the subjects by nationality, number of people, attributes, etc. This survey will be conducted as open research, open to all interested parties, using D-agree and Google Forms.
(6) Advantages and Disadvantages of Participants
Although this survey will not be immediately useful to everyone, we will endeavor to use the survey results as material for future social decision-making.
No reward.
There are no penalties for non-participation. However, by answering this survey, in some cases, you may be reminded of painful events such as the corona disaster. You are welcome to cancel your participation in the middle.
(7) Personal information
This survey will collect your email address for logging in to D-agree and contacting you from the organizer, but will not collect any other personally identifiable information.
(8) Freedom to participate and freedom to withdraw consent
By registering with D-agree, you agree to participate in this survey.
You can withdraw your consent to participate in this survey at any time.
However, we cannot delete any data that participants have sent while participating in this survey.
(9) Ethics review
This survey has not undergone ethical review, as we have determined that it is not necessary. However, we will take measures such as deleting inappropriate posts that are against public order and morals.
If you find any inappropriate descriptions or questions in this survey, please contact us at the contact information below. We will reply by email. In addition, questions and answers will be published on the website as information disclosure and reference information for other participants. (Information of the person making the inquiry will not be disclosed.)
《The Ultimate Choice》 Study Group Secretariat: info@hardestchoice.org
(10) Disclosure of research information
The results of this survey and related research will be made public on our website.
<<The Ultimate Choice>> Study Group Website: www.hardestchoice.org
(11) Handling of data in this survey
The results of this survey will be used for the research of the research group and may be provided to third parties such as other researchers.
(12) Research funding and conflicts of interest
This survey will be conducted through research grants from the Toyota Foundation. However, the Toyota Foundation is not involved in the content of this research itself, and promises that this research will not be influenced by the interests or intentions of the funders, etc., and that this research will be conducted in a fair and appropriate manner.
I would also like to make it clear that any issues arising from this research will be attributed to the researcher and not to the Toyota Foundation, which funded it.
(13) Research implementation system
Research Director: Hirotsugu Ohba, Researcher, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Research Organization: “Ultimate Choice” Study Group (https://hardestchoice.org/)
Research funding: The Toyota Foundation "Requirements for AI for social decision-making - research on good quality datasets and desirable outputs" (https://toyotafound.secure.force.com/psearch/JoseiDetail?name=D19- ST-0019)
(14) Contact
《The Ultimate Choice》 Study Group Secretariat: info@hardestchoice.org
