The trolley problem demonstrates just how dire the coronavirus pandemic is becoming — with a touch of surrealist humor, of course. In the moral paradox, a trolley's brakes stop working ...

Now consider the same scenario, except that instead of one person on the track, it is Harambe, the meme martyr primate. This is one of the many online variants of the classic trolley problem.

The variations replace the victims, the switch operator, the trolley, or any combination of those with other characters or ideas. Some of them do away with the junction altogether: The meme was ...

In the video posted on @fofrAI’s X account, AI’s proposed solution to the trolley problem is to reverse course and back away slowly from the potential victims, thus sparing itself the work of ...