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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Problem with the Trolley Problem The Ethical Dilemmas and How They Challenge Our Morality! This Komodo dragon bites a 0.5-ton buffalo... then just waits for it to die 6 tips for keeping your ...

So you’re walking down the street one day minding your own business when you hear people yelling a short distance away. You run to discover a group of five people tied up on a set of train tracks ...

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 ...

The big thinkers at Aperture analyze the ethical dilemmas behind the classic trolley problem. Stop using your car's USB port to charge your phone Senators head for the exits without meeting Trump's ...

AI is proving that it can do more than just take people’s jobs and contribute to global warming. It’s also capable of solving complicated ethical hypotheticals — and getting a laugh. In the video ...

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 ...