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 ...

Thank you to everyone who reached out to me to after reading last week’s article; your thoughts have inspired me to share a few words on a classic psychological and philosophical dilemma commonly ...

The first death caused by a self-driving car occurred on Sunday, March 18, 2018. Elaine Herzberg was walking down a street in Tempe, Arizona when an Uber Volvo SUV operating on “fully autonomous mode” ...

Researchers have developed a new experiment to better understand what people view as moral and immoral decisions related to driving vehicles, with the goal of collecting data to train autonomous ...

One of the most controversial topics embroiling AI Ethics is the infamous Trolley Problem. Let’s unpack the matter and see what we can reveal. The logical place to start entails clarifying what the ...

Superhero stories are well known for their high stakes, which in the best cases have interesting moral dimensions as well. Such is the case when heroes confront a tragic dilemma, one from which they ...