Wired

Self-Driving Cars Will Kill People. Who Decides Who Dies?

Jay Donde (@Jay_Donde) is an attorney in the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, where he practices privacy and data security law. To understand the trolley problem, first consider this ...
Washington Examiner

Self-driving cars have created a real-life ‘Trolley Problem’

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 ...
The Harvard Crimson

Trump and the Trolley Problem

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 ...
The Business Journals

MIT Wants To Help Autonomous Vehicles Solve The Trolley Problem

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 ...
Forbes

AI Ethicists Clash Over Real-World Aptness Of The Controversial Trolley Problem, But For Self-Driving Cars It Is The Real Deal

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 ...