Cybernetic Ethics Simulator

Autonomous systems are routinely built to optimize a measurable goal while operating inside a safety boundary someone else defined — the same structural question this article's discussion of cybernetic ethics raises about control, moral responsibility and emergent behavior in simulated systems. This simulator makes that boundary concrete: a stream of agents each face a fork between a fast, hazardous lane and a slow, safe one. Raise autonomy and agents push harder for the efficient choice; raise the safety constraint and the system overrides more of those choices outright, trading throughput for fewer incidents. Watch efficiency, incidents, interventions and the resulting trust index shift in real time as you move the balance between machine autonomy and imposed human oversight.