The Ethics Lab
Test your moral intuitions through classic ethical dilemmas. Make your choice, then face AI cross-examination that challenges your reasoning and exposes potential inconsistencies.
Choose a Dilemma
The Trolley Problem
A runaway trolley is heading toward five workers on the track who cannot escape. You are standing next to a lever that can divert the trolley to a sid...
The Fat Man on the Bridge
A runaway trolley is heading toward five workers. You are standing on a bridge above the tracks next to a large man. If you push him off the bridge, h...
The Unconscious Violinist
You wake up connected to an unconscious famous violinist. You've been kidnapped by a music society who attached your circulatory system to his because...
The Ticking Time Bomb
A terrorist has planted a nuclear bomb in a major city that will kill millions. You have captured one of their accomplices who knows the location. Tim...
The Murderer at the Door
A friend is hiding in your house from someone who wants to kill them. The would-be murderer knocks on your door and asks if your friend is inside. You...
The Healing Lie
You are a doctor. A terminally ill patient asks if there is any hope. You know that patients with hope often live longer and have better quality of li...
The Loyal Whistleblower
You work for a company that is secretly dumping toxic waste, poisoning a local water supply. Your employer has given you everything - your career, you...
The Organ Lottery
Imagine a society where, when someone dies in an accident, their organs are automatically harvested to save multiple lives. This system saves thousand...
The Utility Monster
A being exists that derives enormous pleasure from consuming resources - far more pleasure than any human could gain from anything. For every unit of ...
The Ones Who Walk Away
Omelas is a utopia - a city of perfect happiness, prosperity, and fulfillment. But it has a secret: all the happiness depends on one child being kept ...
The Experience Machine
Scientists have created a machine that can give you any experience you desire. Once plugged in, you will believe everything is real and feel genuine h...
The Teleporter Dilemma
A teleporter can transport you instantly to Mars. It works by scanning your body, destroying it, and reconstructing an exact copy at the destination. ...
The Simulation Question
You receive convincing evidence that you are living in a computer simulation. Your relationships, achievements, and experiences are all programs. Howe...
Designing from the Veil
You can design society's rules from scratch, but you will not know what position you will occupy in it - rich or poor, able or disabled, majority or m...
The Lifeboat Dilemma
Your lifeboat can safely hold 50 people. There are already 50 aboard. 100 more are drowning in the water, begging to be saved. If you take more, the b...
The University Admission
You run university admissions. Candidate A scores slightly higher on merit-based criteria but comes from a privileged background with every advantage....
The Taxation Question
An entrepreneur creates immense value through innovation, becoming extremely wealthy. The government wants to tax their wealth heavily to fund healthc...
The Repugnant Conclusion
Consider two possible futures: Future A has 10 billion people all living extremely happy, fulfilling lives. Future B has 100 trillion people, each liv...
The Non-Identity Problem
A woman has a genetic condition. If she has a child now, it will have a painful but liveable disability. If she waits two months and takes medication,...
The Climate Sacrifice
Drastic action now could prevent climate catastrophe that will kill billions in 100 years. But that action requires immediate sacrifices: economic har...
How It Works
Read the Scenario
Carefully consider the ethical dilemma presented to you
Make Your Choice
Select the option that aligns with your moral intuition
Defend Your Position
Face Socratic questioning from our AI examiner