AIxMultilateralism: "A Dangerous Master" Revisited - Wendell Wallach on AI, Ethics and Governance

About this episode

Wendell Wallach discusses the ethics and governance of AI and the relevance of his works in the context of international cooperation.

This is AI x Multilateralism, a playlist of conversations at the UN Library & Archives Geneva where we’re joined by experts who help us unpack the many ideas and issues at the nexus of AI and international cooperation. In this episode, we're joined by Wendell Wallach, a bioethicist who's been working on the ethics and governance of emerging technologies for decades. He’s the author of two books – A Dangerous Master, and Moral Machines – and until 2024, co-led the Carnegie Council’s AI and Equality Initiative. He’s also senior advisor to The Hastings Center, and a scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, where for 11 years he chaired Technology and Ethics studies.For this episode, we’re sharing excerpts from a wide-ranging conversation where he shares his views on the ethics and governance of AI, the continued relevance of his books on robots and technologies many years after they were first published, what we can learn from bioethics, and the urgent need for oversight to align technology with human and environmental interests.Resources: Read "A Framework for the International Governance of AI" - Carnegie Council's AI & Equality Initiative. Read…

People in this episode

Guest: Wendell Wallach

Topics covered

• AI
• ethics
• governance
• international cooperation
• bioethics

Keywords

• AI governance
• bioethics
• emerging technologies
• international cooperation
• oversight

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Carnegie Council, The Hastings Center, Yale University

Books & works: A Dangerous Master, Moral Machines

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