It seems every year I must write about the highly distracting "trolley problem" question for robocars, where people wonder how software will "decide who to kill" when a car faces an unavoidable ...

Think quickly: You are a bystander witnessing a runaway trolley that is careening toward five workers. You have just two choices: One, pull a switch diverting the trolley onto another track, where one ...

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 ...

Picture the following situation: You are taking a freshman-level philosophy class in college, and your professor has just asked you to imagine a runaway trolley barreling down a track toward a group ...

A runaway trolley is speeding along a track to which five people are tied, up ahead. I am standing next to a lever that, if pulled, would divert the trolley to a track where only one person is tied.

In this video from Intel AI DevCon 2018, Genevieve Bell from Intel examines the nature of ethics, how and why they might apply in a world of Artificial Intelligence technologies and emergent ...

There is a runaway trolley speeding down the tracks toward five people. You can pull a lever and change the trolley’s path so that it hits only one person, but you aren’t aware of this option because ...

One of the many comedic issues the title character confronts on the new season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is her philosophy class, specifically the classic trolley problem. A runaway trolley is ...