Émilie A. Caspar

The paper presents a trolley-like dilemma experiment to study how autonomous systems influence moral decision-making and human agency.

This paper investigates how commanding or acting as an intermediary affects moral behavior and brain mechanisms, finding no difference in agency between commanders and intermediaries but a neural response difference when agents are robots versus humans.

The paper shows that obeying orders reduces vicarious brain activation related to others' pain and decreases feelings of guilt and responsibility.