Ugh, I hate ethical questions like this, because they always describe situations that would never happen in real life without a million other conditions that no ethical test could ever account for.

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 ...

Skeptics of driverless cars have a variety of criticisms, from technical to demand based, but perhaps the most curious is the supposed ethical trolley problem it creates. While the question of how ...

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 ...

Woojin Lim ’22, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Philosophy concentrator in Winthrop House. Daniel Shin ’22 is a Philosophy and Math concentrator in Quincy House. Their column appears on alternate ...

Orin Kerr is a professor of law at George Washington University and contributes to The Volokh Conspiracy. Updated January 27, 2016, 2:05 PM You probably know the dilemma of the trolley problem: A ...

A lot of people in the US seem willing to throw themselves under the trolley to save themselves from wearing a mask. Click to expand... More accurately, they're willing to let the trolley roll over ...