Human moral judgement and decision-making reside at the intersection of emotion, cognition and social context. Classic theories distinguish deontological rules, which evaluate actions by their ...

More and more people are turning to large language models like ChatGPT for life advice and free therapy, as it is sometimes perceived as a space free from human biases. A new study published in the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has promoted application and development of self-driving cars. However, when self-driving cars encounter ethical dilemma, it is still hard to make a satisficing and clear ...

Researchers have validated a technique for studying how people make “moral” decisions when driving, with the goal of using the resulting data to train the artificial intelligence used in autonomous ...

It's clear that large language models (LLMs) are smart—but moral, too? A recent paper suggests that these models can provide moral guidance that surpasses even expert human ethicists. This development ...

Conceptual illustration of the ethical dilemma in the experiement. When making ethical decisions, university students appear to prioritize fairness and the fate of the worst-off over either reducing ...

What makes our decisions morally just or objectionable? It is the brain activity that is responsible for the differences in our moral behaviour, reveals a new study. "Our study demonstrates that with ...

These are moral choices — about harm and fairness — and they used to be made by people. Now moral choices like these are made ...

Traditional tools amplified human intent but did not make independent choices. A hammer does not decide what to build. But modern AI systems do more than follow rules. They learn from data, adapt to ...