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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As artificial intelligence becomes faster, cheaper and more embedded in daily life, experts say several deeply human abilities will remain beyond machines' reach well into 2026. Even autonomous ...

These words, from Nelson Mandela, speak volumes about the difficulties we face in the often-fraught process of decision-making. A decision is essentially a choice. Whether that choice involves major, ...

Especially difficult decisions, ones bound to upset some individual or group, provoke knee-rattling anxiety in even the most level-headed of decision makers. And because human beings abhor anxiety, ...

It used to be that players didn’t have many choices in video games, and the ones they did have didn’t involve delving into moral ambiguity for entertainment’s sake. Those days are behind us as more ...

While the technology is set to play a growing role in modern warfare, there remains an unresolved ethical challenge ...