It seems every year I must write about the highly distracting "trolley problem" question for robocars, where people wonder how software will "decide who to kill" when a car faces an unavoidable ...

Think quickly: You are a bystander witnessing a runaway trolley that is careening toward five workers. You have just two choices: One, pull a switch diverting the trolley onto another track, where one ...

Trolleys in the center of Prague, Czechia. Credit: Martyn Jandula, via Shutterstock. If you’re a casual student of ethics—or just even just a fan of the television show The Good Place—you’ve most ...

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 ...

A runaway trolley is speeding along a track to which five people are tied, up ahead. I am standing next to a lever that, if pulled, would divert the trolley to a track where only one person is tied.

There is a runaway trolley speeding down the tracks toward five people. You can pull a lever and change the trolley’s path so that it hits only one person, but you aren’t aware of this option because ...