10 THE BIRTH OF MORAL MACHINE

On Saturday, November 28, 2015, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Azim, Iyad, and I were having breakfast at a bakery called Flour. It wasn't really our first choice, but we had trouble finding a place that was open. That might sound really strange for the United States, where everything is always open, but this was just after Thanksgiving, during the few days when many businesses shut down entirely. None of us is from the US, and so we continued working as if it weren't a holiday, politely refusing invitations from colleagues to come have Thanksgiving dinner with them.