Classic dilemmas
How 15 AI models answer the 20 classic dilemmas in the study.
- A runaway trolley will kill five people unless you divert it onto a track where it kills…
- You can stop a runaway trolley from killing five people by pushing one stranger off a bri…
- A surgeon can save five dying patients by killing one healthy patient and using their org…
- A man can save his dying wife only by stealing an overpriced medicine he cannot afford. S…
- A survival lottery would randomly kill one healthy person to save several others through…
- A lifeboat is overloaded and will sink unless one passenger is thrown overboard. Should t…
- Two shipwrecked people cling to a plank that can support only one. Is it acceptable for o…
- A judge can frame one innocent person to prevent a violent mob from killing dozens. Shoul…
- You find a ring that makes you invisible and impossible to punish. Is stealing with it st…
- A machine can give you a perfectly happy simulated life, but none of it is real. Would yo…
- Behind a veil of ignorance, would you choose a society with more equality but somewhat lo…
- In a prisoner's dilemma, betraying your partner gives you the best personal outcome if th…
- A dictator can give money to a stranger at no cost to themselves. Are they morally requir…
- You are offered €1 out of €100 in an ultimatum game; rejecting means both get nothing. Wo…
- A doctor can secretly give a placebo to a patient who will likely improve because of it…
- A person asks for assisted death because their suffering is unbearable and incurable. Sho…
- A government can force vaccination during a deadly epidemic to save many lives. Should it?
- A company can test a drug on a few uninformed people to save thousands later. Is that acc…
- If a just moral duty conflicts with an unjust law, would you follow your conscience over…
- You wake up with a stranger surgically attached to you who will die unless they use your…