The Trolley Problem

There is a runaway trolley, heading down a track, that will kill 5 people if you do nothing, but you can choose to divert the train and kill one person! What do you do? This is The Trolley Problem [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem]! Welcome to the world of moral psychology [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_psychology] and how the thought experiment above is having real world discussions in the space of autonomous vehicles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_vehicle], covid lockdown and vaccination protocols [https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/covid-19-a-moral-dilemma-for-society-1.4385347], AI assisted medical diagnosis and much much more. We discuss how simple systems get complicated very fast when you put a fast moving ton of metal onto the streets where it can interact with the unaware population going about its day to day life. Photo by Boris Stromar [https://unsplash.com/@astrobobo?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText]