Have you ever heard of the trolley problem? It’s a thought experiment that puts the subject at the scene of an impending disaster. A runaway trolley careens toward five people ruthlessly tied to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study involving millions of people to see who they would save in the classic trolley problem has thrown up some interesting results – with dogs being the worst off. The rest of this article is ...