Automakers and regulators have been grappling with how to best program autonomous vehicles to handle ethical dilemmas, and now a group of MIT researchers is hoping to give the public a say in the ...

In 2016, researchers from the MIT Media Lab launched an experiment. They wanted to understand how people wanted self-driving cars to act, so they built a website where anyone could experience 13 ...

The "Trolley Problem" is a famous ethical dilemma about killing one person to save others. A group of MIT researchers recently applied it to the world of self-driving cars, posing a series of ...

It is a classic problem and a test of where our morality lies: if a runaway trolley is uncontrollably heading down a set of tracks and you have the ability to use a lever and choose between either ...

On first glance, a site that collects people’s opinions about whose life an autonomous car should favor doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. But look closer, and you’ll catch a glimpse of ...

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Is it OK to kill time? Machines used to find this question difficult to answer, but a new study reveals that Artificial Intelligence can be programmed to judge 'right' from 'wrong'. Published in ...