Among the many lessons “The Good Place” tried to teach us, along with how to be “good” and what we owe to each other, was how to make a difficult decision when there is really no good choice. The ...
Superhero stories are well known for their high stakes, which in the best cases have interesting moral dimensions as well. Such is the case when heroes confront a tragic dilemma, one from which they ...
There’s a puppy on the road. The car is going too fast to stop in time, but swerving means the car will hit an old man on the sidewalk instead. What choice would you make? Perhaps more importantly, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Businesses often follow a define-plan-execute method of problem solving: spend time up front rigorously defining a problem, develop a ...
Are you stuck with workplace problems that you can't solve? Make your problem front and center. When you say that you're "a firefighter," you don't mean the firefighter who runs into buildings with ...
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 ...
Superhero stories are well known for their high stakes, which in the best cases have interesting moral dimensions as well. Such is the case when heroes confront a tragic dilemma, one from which they ...