The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be exceptionally challenging for health care worldwide. Media and politicians currently pay attention to the ethical dilemma of distributing a prospective and potentially scarce COVID-19 vaccine. Meanwhile, physicians in intensive care units that are running...

Ethically, it is debatable whether we may program autonomous systems (AS) to actively impose harm on some to avoid greater harm for others. Responses to surveys on ethical dilemmas in the programming of self-driving cars have shown that people favor to impose harm on some people to save others...