The double-edged sword of technology, with Wendell Wallach

How do we keep technology from slipping beyond our control? That’s the subtitle of the latest book by our guest in this episode, Wendell Wallach.

Wendell is the Carnegie-Uehiro fellow at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, where he co-directs the Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative. He is also Emeritus Chair of Technology and Ethics Studies at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, a scholar with the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, a fellow at the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technology, and a senior advisor to The Hastings Center.

Earlier in his life, Wendell was founder and president of two computer consulting companies, Farpoint Solutions and Omnia Consulting Inc.

Selected follow-ups:

• Wendell Wallach Personal Website
• Wendell Wallach - Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
• The Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative
• Nobel Peace Prize Lecture by Christian Lous Lange (1921)
• Thomas Midgley Jr. - Wikipedia
• Montreal Protocol - Wikipedia
• Robot Dog Highlighted at China-Cambodia Joint Military Exercise (video)
• For Our Posterity - essay by Leopold Aschenbrenner
• Campaign by Control/AI against deepfakes

Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration