Toyota Foundation Research Grant: "Requirements for AI to make social decisions: high-quality data sets and desirable outputs" (Principal Investigator: Hirotsugu Ohba,D19-ST-0019The report, "Conveying Society's Voice to AI: Report on a Social Survey on the Choice of Sacrifice," compiled as the final outcome of the "Ultimate Choice" Study Group, will be released on March 31, 2025.
This report is the result of an online survey of approximately 2,000 people in Japan and the United States regarding sacrifice choices.
The survey subjects were 2,004 people in Japan and 2,004 people in the United States, with a gender ratio of 1,002 men and 1,002 women in both countries. The age distribution of the subjects was six categories: 18–29 years, 30–39 years, 40–49 years, 50–59 years, 60–69 years, and 70–79 years. In both countries, the samples were adjusted to have the same number of 12 cells of "gender x age (6 categories)", and each cell had 167 people.
The underlying concern of this report is how to respond to a situation in which AI makes decisions on behalf of humans when they themselves are hesitant to make sacrifices. Although the choice of sacrifice is a sensitive issue, if left unchecked, it could lead to humans being excluded from making decisions. Therefore, this report is the result of conducting a social survey to allow humans to make the decision themselves, collecting the results as data, and analyzing that data in preparation for a future scenario in which AI decides the "allocation of sacrifices" on behalf of humans when it comes to choosing social sacrifices -- the so-called "ultimate choice."
