What is the Trolley Problem

By Eong Jinkyu, 김신. 2015

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Learning to Drive in a Day (2018, background): “This will involve the careful consideration of many safety [33] and ethical issues [34].”
Virtual Reality for Enhanced Ecological Validity and Experimental Control in the Clinical, Affective and Social Neurosciences (2015, background): “Examples of moral decision making assessment include the Trolley and Footbridge Dilemmas, in which the participant reads a text in which a runaway trolley is heading for five immobile people on its tracks (Thomson, 1985; Greene et al., 2004).”
Goal-Oriented Design for Ethical Machine Learning and NLP (2017, background): “Utilitarians are consequentialist ethicists famous for focusing on the goodness of outcomes (Foot, 1967; Taurek, 1977; Parfit, 1978; Thomson, 1985).”
Trait psychopathy and utilitarian moral judgement: The mediating role of action aversion (2015, background): “(Frank Underwood,House of Cards, 2013) Imagine the so-called footbridge dilemma (Thomson, 1985) where a trolley speeding down the track threatens to kill five people if nothing is done.”
Sacrifice One For the Good of Many? People Apply Different Moral Norms to Human and Robot Agents (2015, methodology): “We designed a narrative about a mining dilemma, modeled after the famous trolley scenario [45], [46].”
The Cycle of Violence: Understanding Individual Participation in Collective Violence (2015, background): “Research on the classic “trolley problem” illustrates this point (Thomson, 1985).”
Away from Trolley Problems and Toward Risk Management (2016, background): “Introduced by Foot (1967), and later elaborated by Thomson (1985, 2008), the trolley problem originally described a tram traveling toward CONTACT Noah J. Goodall njg2q@virginia.edu Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville, 22903 VA, USA.”
Revisiting External Validity: Concerns About Trolley Problems and Other Sacrificial Dilemmas in Moral Psychology (2014, background): “Thomson (1976, 1985) modified Foot’s original scenario to explore the notion that people feel less obligated to do something that saves lives than avoid doing something that kills people (i.e., positive and negative duties; Rawls, 1971/1999).”
The Ethics of Accident-Algorithms for Self-Driving Cars: an Applied Trolley Problem? (2016, background): “(Thomson 1985) Different versions of these trolley cases vary with respect to how the one will need to be sacrificed in order for the five to be saved.”