(Inside Science) -- If your car was in a lethal accident, would you prefer for it to kill one innocent bystander or five? By posing variations of this problem online to volunteers nearly 40 million ...

Is it OK to kill time? Machines used to find this question difficult to answer, but a new study reveals that Artificial Intelligence can be programmed to judge 'right' from 'wrong'. Published in ...

I live with a robot. Most of the time, it rests silently on its little platform (otherwise known as its home) until I push its belly button (otherwise known as the on/off switch). Then a green light ...