(Inside Science) -- If your car was in a lethal accident, would you prefer for it to kill one innocent bystander or five? By posing variations of this problem online to volunteers nearly 40 million ...

Claims of machine “sentience” challenge Jewish notions of moral responsibility, writes a rabbi and engineer. (JTA) — When a Google engineer told an interviewer that an artificial intelligence (AI) ...

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, ...

What would it take to teach a machine to make ethical decisions? Using neural network technology, a research team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence headed by Dr. Yejin Choi recently ...