Books
Together with Colin Allen (Professor in the Department of History and the Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh), Wendell Wallach published "Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong" (OUP 2009). Moral Machines explores the challenges inherent for implementing in robots and artificial intelligence sensitivity to moral considerations, and factoring these into choices and actions. Generally recognized as the first book to map this field of inquiry, Moral Machines has been cited more than 1500 times as of September 2022.
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What does an informed citizen need to understanding to participate in the exciting, serious, and consequential debates about the ethics and governance of emerging teaching? A Dangerous Master: How to keep Technology from Slipping Beyond our Control (OUP 2015) is a succinct primer written with that need in mind. Part science, part history. part philosophy and part ethics, A Dangerous Master is a transdisciplinary overview of the concepts, topics, and proposals that will be seminal in helping us navigate the promise and perils of artificial intelligence, biotechnologies, nanotechnologies, neuroscience, and geoengineering. The narrative can be scary at first, as it introduces potential risks and undesirable societal consequences of new tools and innovations, but it pivots to focus on values and policy measure that will help build a future worthy of passing onto our children.
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