A New Spin to Ethical AI: Trolley Problems with GPT-3

Would GPT-3 sacrifice many to save a few?

A pensive robot sitting on railroad tracks pondering the meaning of trolley problems and other existential questions. Generated by author using DALL-E 2

You may have heard of trolley problems, a philosophical thought experiment regarding the ethics of sacrificing one person to save a larger number of people. How would GPT-3, a generative text AI created by OpenAI, answer these ethical dilemmas?