two on the tracks
Each exercise puts two players on Track A and Track B. Everyone else becomes part of M.O.R.A.L.'s human training panel.
teach a machine morality. try not to make it worse.
3–8 players~25 min
party
wrong track
You are the human training panel for M.O.R.A.L., an AI learning what people call ethics. Load the tracks, defend your survival, and make the least troubling decision you can manage.
from the room
peek inside
M.O.R.A.L. is the Machine Observation and Reasoning through Applied Learning system. It has rules, a trolley, and very little confidence in its human training data.
You are the human ethics panel. Load each track, argue which life matters more, then show M.O.R.A.L. what a real person would choose.
Every decision becomes training data. Three lives each. Last player standing earns the worrying distinction of being humanity's ethical benchmark.
the short version
how to play
One host on the TV. Everyone else on a phone. The room does the shouting.
load, save, argue
Load the other track, save your own, then explain why your self-interest is ethically defensible.
pull the lever
The panel chooses in private. M.O.R.A.L. runs the trolley, removes one life, and updates its increasingly concerning model of humanity.