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Moral Algorithms conference

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April 18, 2016
All Day
Film/Video Theater, Wexner Center for the Arts

In collaboration with the Center for Ethics and Human Values and others on campus, the DSC will co-sponsor a small conference on Moral Algorithms: the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles.

External participants commited to the April 18th conference include the following:

 

 

 

 

Session 1: Current & Near-Future Technological Capabilities

  • What is the technology for autonomous vehicles capable of producing? What’s on the horizon for this technology?
  • Noah Goodall (Transportation Research Council, Virginia)
  • Selina Pan (Mechanical Engineering, Stanford)

Session 2: Moral Values and Constraints

  • What are the relevant moral questions and issues at stake? What moral values are involve
  • Jason Millar (Philosophy, Carleton College)
  • Wendell Wallach (Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale)

Session 3: Psychological Aspects of Dilemmatic Choice

  • How do humans make decisions about how to resolve these questions and issues? How do they retrospectively evaluate their decisions?
  • Bertram Malle (Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown)
  • Tess Wilkenson-Ryan (Law, Penn)

Session 4: Law & Public Policy

  • What challenges face us in accounting for the moral issues surrounding autonomous vehicles?
  • Bryant Walker-Smith (Law, South Carolina)
  • Stephen Wu (Silicon Valley Law Group)

 

For more conference details, click here.