Phillipa Foot originally posed the Trolley Problem as a pure philosophical thought experiment, but it is now shaping real engineering decisions. Autonomous vehicles must be programmed with utilitarian logic, such as swerving into a ditch to kill the driver rather than striking a group of pedestrians. A thought experiment once confined to ethics seminars is now being written into AI safety code.
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