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

This is AIxMultilateralism, 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 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 (carnegiecouncil.org/media/article/envisioning-…..)" - Carnegie Council's AI & Equality Initiative.

• Read the new preface (carnegiecouncil.org/media/article/dangerous-ma…..) to "A Dangerous Master - How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control" by Wendell Wallach.

• Visit Wendell Wallach's website (wwallach.com).

• Learn about the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance (un.org/global-dialogue-ai-governance/en) and the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI (un.org/independent-international-scientific-pa…).

Production:

Guest: Wendell Wallach.

Host, production and editing: Natalie Alexander Julien.

Editorial assistance: Amy Smith and Wouter Schallier.

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Recorded & produced at the Commons, United Nations Library & Archives Geneva.