Moral machine

Moral Machine is an installation exploring ethical training and image-based judgment. The space is divided into three zones. In one, religious statues (Buddhist, Catholic, Taoist, Hindu) move on motorized platforms. In another, cameras film the statues in real time; an AI evaluates whether the images are “moral.” Statues shift away from areas labeled “immoral,” maintaining a moral appearance.

In the third zone, viewers judge AI-transformed images (statues rendered as animals), feeding their decisions back into the system, which in turn alters the AI’s moral criteria.

The artwork reveals a recursive loop: while religion is often seen as a moral symbol, AI may read it as immoral. When viewers’ judgments are based on AI-generated images, moral value becomes fluid and absurd. This system questions the rationality of machine ethics and the plasticity of morality under technological mediation.