Indie developer’s take on the ethical conundrum about choosing who to save from an oncoming train may be gimmicky, but with its charm and bite-size levels, it’s ideal for the social media era In 1967, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The moral philosopher Philippa Foot was born 90 years ago into a hunting, shooting and fishing milieu, in which ...

The Trolley Problem always struck me as a little dubious. First posed in its modern form in 1967 as a conundrum in ethical philosophy, it generally runs something like this. You see a runaway trolley ...

The definition of an ethical dilemma is quite simple. A matter of two conflicting moral ideas, where both present viable pros and cons. The average joe could rattle off several instances of ethical ...

Self-driving cars would never get themselves into situations where they would have to make an ethical decision to save lives, claims Trent Victor, senior technical leader of crash avoidance at Volvo.

A little boy was playing with his train set when his dad asked him to try to answer the trolley problem and he surprises everyone A LITTLE boy was asked by his dad to try to find a solution to the ...