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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.

Eminent domain can be understood through the Trolley Problem, which is a philosophical thought experiment. The government can take private land and property for public use through eminent domain in ...

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 ...

The big-idea explorers at Aperture dive into the flawed ethics behind the famous trolley problem.

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 ...

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 ...

T.J. Fixman on what makes an exciting Christmas thriller, his own interactions with airport security and what you shouldn’t leave in your luggage. By Christine Chung To T.J. Fixman, the writer of the ...