As artificial intelligence continues to advance rapidly, concerns are growing about how machines, such as autonomous vehicles, will make moral decisions—particularly those where human lives are at ...

Should the driver of a crashing car be allowed to swerve into your lane and kill you, if she calculates that doing so would save her life? What if she'd die, too, but would save the lives of a ...

Thank you to everyone who reached out to me to after reading last week’s article; your thoughts have inspired me to share a few words on a classic psychological and philosophical dilemma commonly ...

What would you do if you saw a self-driving car hit a person? In Robot Ethics, Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna, posits a trolley problem ...

Picture the following situation: You are taking a freshman-level philosophy class in college, and your professor has just asked you to imagine a runaway trolley barreling down a track toward a group ...