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Deconstructing the Trolley Problem: From Static Triage to a Two-Tier Hierarchical Evaluation Framework for Constructive Moral Intelligence

2026-08-21

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>The classic trolley problem and its autonomous vehicle (AV) variants present a fundamental challenge to machine ethics by framing moral decision-making as a static, compensatory trade-off between human lives. Traditional algorithmic approaches rely on Benthamite additive aggregation, where individual utility or survival probabilities are summed linearly. Additive models coupled with har...

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8bb4f06f-473d-54ce-8423-a2d9bf4a668f
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-10758121/v1
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