Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. Last week, the ...

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 ...

Recently, the “trolley problem,” a decades-old thought experiment in moral philosophy, has been enjoying a second career of sorts, appearing in nightmare visions of a future in which cars make ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on innovations aimed at making the world a much better place. Should the driver of a crashing car be allowed to swerve ...

Jay Donde (@Jay_Donde) is an attorney in the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, where he practices privacy and data security law. To understand the trolley problem, first consider this ...