The trolley problem is a staple of discussions about ethics. The basic version is very simple: A trolley is barreling down a track toward a group of five people who remain blissfully unaware of their ...

The Moral Machine Experiment highlights the cultural and economic variations between countries responding to the ethical dilemma. As autonomous vehicles become more ubiquitous, thinking about the ...

In an excerpt from "Robot Ethics," professor Mark Coeckelbergh examines how self-driving cars would decide which humans to save Reading time 7 minutes What would you do if you saw a self-driving car ...

Trolleys in the center of Prague, Czechia. Credit: Martyn Jandula, via Shutterstock. If you’re a casual student of ethics—or just even just a fan of the television show The Good Place—you’ve most ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already making decisions in the fields of business, health care and manufacturing. But AI algorithms generally still get help from people applying checks and making the ...

Should the driver of a crashing car be allowed to swerve into your lane and kill you, if she calculates that doing so would save her life? What if she'd die, too, but would save the lives of a ...

The definition of an ethical dilemma is quite simple. A matter of two conflicting moral ideas, where both present viable pros and cons. The average joe could rattle off several instances of ethical ...