Technology & Ethics

Chair: Wendell Wallach, wendell.wallach@yale.edu

This group meets at 77 Prospect St, room B012, from 4:15-6 PM.  Snacks and drinks will be provided.

September 24th: Deane Aikens, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, National Center for PTSD, and Asst. Professor of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine

A shrinking mind: The overlapping genetics of Alzheimer's Disease and Combat Stress

October 22th: Peter Asaro, Department of Media Studies and Film, The New School, and Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University.

Modeling the Moral User: Tele-Operation Interfaces for Military Technology

November 12th: David Bolinsky, Medical Director, XVIVO

When Good Pixels Go Bad: Unintended Consequences of Simplifying Complex Concepts in Microanatomy

December 3rd: Philip Rubin, Chief Executive Officer, Haskins Laboratories

Talking Heads: Embodied cognition and ethics

January 21st: Kristin Lane, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Bard College

Implicit Social Bias: How can we measure the mind?

February 18th: Ronald Arkin, Regents’ Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Tech University

Ethics and Lethality in Autonomous Robots

March 11th: Deborah Johnson, Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics, University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science

Landmines, Lifeboats, and Computers: Are They Moral Agents?

April 2nd*: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Undoing Democracy: Technology, Ethics, and the Public Sphere

May 6th: Ben Goertzel, CEO/CSO, Novamente: Intelligent Virtual Agents

The Ethics of Creating Human-Level AI

RSVP to bioethics.center@yale.edu if you wish to attend.