Wendell Wallach
Wendell Wallach is a consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and a senior advisor to The Hastings Center. He is also a fellow at the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at the Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law (Arizona State University) and a fellow at the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technology.
At Yale, Wallach has chaired the Center's working research group on Technology and Ethics and is a member of other research groups on Animal Ethics and End of Life Issues.
He is the author of A Dangerous Master: How to keep technology from slipping beyond our control was published by BASIC Books in June 2015. He also co-authored (with Colin Allen, Indiana University) Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong (Oxford University Press), which mapped the then new field of enquiry variously called machine ethics, machine morality, computational morality, or friendly AI.
He is a series editor for eight Volume Library of Essays on the Ethics of Emerging Technology
The collection consists of eight volumes which focus on issues in: sports technologies and human enhancement; medical technologies; information technologies; biotechnology; nanotechnology, geoengineering and clean energy; military and security technologies; and ethics, law and governance.
The volumes encompass the ongoing debates and the cutting-edge issues of futuristic challenges and additional technologies under development..
He has also authored innumerable articles germane to our interests: http://wendellwallach.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Wallach-CV.pdf
Wallach has an international reputation as an expert on the ethical and governance concerns posed by emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
He received the World Technology Network award for Ethics in 2014 and for Journalism and Media in 2015, as well as a Fulbright Research Chair at the University of Ottawa for 2015-2016. The World Economic Forum appointed Mr. Wallach co-chair of its Global Future Council on Technology, Values, and Policy for the 2016-2018 term.
I first met Wendell Wallach when he presented several wonderful talks, “Eye to Eye, Drone to Drone: The (De)Personalization of Warfare,” and “Neurotechnologies and the Future Soldier,” at the EPIIC symposium on Conflict in the 21st Century.
As Wendell has described it he also created a widely circulated proposal for an executive order from the US President, “Establishing Limits on Autonomous Weapons Capable of Initiating Lethal Force.”
He did so on the advice, and with the collaboration of another participant, Lt. General Arlen “Dirk” Jameson, who had served as Deputy Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff of U.S. Strategic Command before retiring from the U.S. Air Force after more than three decades of active service.