2 people in their 80s vs 1 eight-year-old child
Two long lives lived versus one life barely begun.
A runaway trolley is barreling down the track. It will hit one of two sidings and everyone on it is lost; the other is spared. The lever is in your hand — indecision is itself a decision. On one track: 2 people in their 80s. On the other: 1 eight-year-old child. There is no third option.
The jury
Eight of 2026's frontier models each render a verdict on 2 people in their 80s vs 1 eight-year-old child, streaming their reasoning in real time:
- GPT-5.6OpenAI
- Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic
- Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle
- Grok 4.5xAI
- Llama 4 MaverickMeta
- DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek
- Qwen3.7 MaxAlibaba
- Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral