23. How to design a moral algorithm with Derek Leben
Podcast authors: Ben Byford interviewing Derek Leben
Audio duration: 54:07 | Website plays & downloads: 1093 Click to download
Tags: Robots, Machine ethics, Rawls, Consent, Contractarianism, Academic, Automated cars | Playlists: Automated Vehicles, Robots, Machine Ethics
Derek Leben is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown. He works at the intersection of ethics, cognitive science, and emerging technologies. In his new book, Ethics for Robots, Leben argues for the use of a particular moral framework for designing autonomous systems based on the Contractarianism of John Rawls. He also demonstrates how this framework can be productively applied to autonomous vehicles, medical technologies, and weapons systems. Follow on Twitter: @EthicsForRobots.
Episode host: Ben Byford
Ben Byford is a AI ethics consultant, code, design and data science teacher, freelance games designer with years of design and coding experience building websites, apps, and games.
In 2015 he began talking on AI ethics and started the Machine Ethics podcast. Since, Ben has talked with academics, developers, doctors, novelists and designers on AI, automation and society.
Through Ethical by Design Ben and the team help organisations make better AI decisions leveraging their experience in design, technology, business, data, sociology and philosophy.