plural of trolley problem

A type of thought experiment in ethics and psychology, involving ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number.

(computing) The problem of how to create a superintelligent AI whose values would align with the interests of humankind.

(mathematics, UK, Canada) The problem in combinatorial optimization in which, given a number of cities and the costs of travelling from one to the other, it is required to determine the cheapest route that visits each city once and then returns to the initial city.

the millennium bug

The problem of finding the motion, relative to one another, of two objects, where the position of each affects the motion of the other.

plural of year 2000 problem

(statistics) The bias to meta-analysis resulting from statistical studies with low statistical power tending to remain unpublished and inaccessible to the analyst.

plural of file-drawer problem

(computing, slang) A problem that should be easily resolved.