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

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) raise a host of ethical challenges, including determining how they should interact with human drivers in mixed-traffic environments, assigning responsibility when an AV ...

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 ...

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 ...