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IEET > Fellows > Wendell Wallach

Wendell Wallach

Wendell Wallach is a consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. He chairs the Center’s working research group on Technology and Ethics and is a member of other research groups on Animal Ethics, End of Life Issues, Neuroethics, and PTSD. Wendell co-authored (with Colin Allen) Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong (Oxford University Press 2009), which maps the new field of enquiry variously called machine ethics, machine morality, computational morality, or friendly AI.

Formerly, he was a founder and the President of two computer consulting companies, Farpoint Solutions and Omnia Consulting Inc. Among the clients served by his companies were PepsiCo International, United Aircraft, and the State of Connecticut.

Wendell also serves on the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, CT and is an associate editor for the journal TopiCS in Cognitive Science. His hobby/avocation is building stained glass windows. He is presently writing a book on the societal, ethical, and public policy challenges arising from technologies that enhance human faculties by altering the mind/body. Another book in progress explores the ways in which cognitive science, new technologies, and introspective practices are altering our understanding of human decision-making and ethics.

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Moral Machines

Air autonomy

Escargots anyone?

Pilotless bombers in the works?

Calling all algorithmic cooks

Wallach Article on Law, Ethics and Robotics

Articles

"(Enhancing) The Moral Brain: Day Three (J.‘s Notes)"   Ethical Technology Apr 1, 2012

"The Moral Brain: Day Two Morning (J.‘s Notes)"   Ethical Technology Mar 31, 2012

"From Robots to Techno Sapiens"   Law, Innovation, and Technology 3(2):185-207 Jan 12, 2012

"Wendell Wallach on Machine Morality"   H Plus Magazine May 29, 2011

"Live-blogging from the Transforming Humanity Conference: Emerging Tech, Hybrid Mice and Smart Drugs"   Ethical Technology Dec 4, 2010

Recent Multimedia

Can A Pill Make Us More Moral?   2012-03-21

Living With Robots   2011-04-08

Singularity 101   2011-02-08

Wendell Wallach on the Singulairty   2007-07-07

Robot Rights and the Morals of Robots   2006-02-11

News

IEET Consults for Japanese Neurotech Consortium (Feb 02, 2012)

Hughes and Wallach essays in Patrick’s new collection on Robot Ethics (Dec 15, 2011)

IEET Appoints Wendell Wallach as Fellow (Jan 26, 2011)

Past Appearances

Wallach on “Issues In The Development Of Robotics And Neurotechnologies” (Southern CT State University, New Haven, CT, USA - Apr 27, 2012)

Wallach, Hughes, Hopkins @ The Moral Brain: What Is It? Can It Be Enhanced? (WSQ Campus, New York University, NYC, NY, USA - Mar 30, 2012)

Lin & Wallach @ Conflict in the 21st Century (Tufts University, Meford, MA - Mar 22, 2012)

Wallach @ Technologies on the stand: legal and ethical questions in neuroscience and robotics. (Tilburg, The Netherlands - Apr 10, 2011)

Hughes, Rothblatt, Kurzweil & Wallach @ Transbeman Screening @ Woodstock Film Festival (Woodstock, NY USA - Oct 02, 2009)

Hughes, Glenn, Wallach @ Human Enhancement & Nanotechnology (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan - Mar 27, 2009)

Wallach on the role of reason in moral decisions (Trinity College, Hartford CT USA - Jan 15, 2009)

Hughes, Cascio & Wallach @ Singularity Summit II (San Francisco, CA USA - Sep 08, 2007)