re: Regarding AI and Driverless Cars...

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Those are not original scenarios. Those two examples have been talked about a ton in other contexts.

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As mentioned by another poster it is the Trolley Problem put forth by Philippa Foote in the 60's. It was used as the basis for MIT's Moral Machine project. It goes much deeper than most people see it. The average person votes almost unanimously to switch and kill one vs 5. Philosophers spend much more time thinking about the action vs inaction portion of the ethical problem.