Wendell Wallach | |
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Born | Torrington, Connecticut | April 21, 1946
Nationality | American |
Education | Wesleyan University, Harvard University |
Employer(s) | Scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs |
Website | http://wwallach.com |
Wendell Wallach[1] (born April 21, 1946) is a bioethicist and author focused on the ethics and governance of emerging technologies, in particular artificial intelligence and neuroscience.[2][3] He is a scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics,[4][1] a senior advisor to The Hastings Center,[5] and a Carnegie/Uehiro Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs,[1] where he co-directs the "Artificial Intelligence Equality Initiative" with Anja Kaspersen.[6] Wallach is also a fellow at the Center for Law and Innovation at the Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law at Arizona State University.[2] He has written two books on the ethics of emerging technologies.:[2][1] "Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong" (2010)[7] and "A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control" (2015).[8] Wallach discusses his professional, personal and spiritual journey, as well as some of the biggest conundrums facing humanity at the wake of the bio/digital revolution, in this podcast published by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (CCEIA).[9]