Wendell Wallach is the Carnegie-Uehiro fellow at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, where he co-directs the Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative (AIEI).
He is also Emeritus Chair of Technology and Ethics Studies at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, a scholar with the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, a fellow at the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technology, and a senior advisor to The Hastings Center.
Previously, Wallach was founder and president of two computer consulting companies, Farpoint Solutions and Omnia Consulting Inc. He is the author of A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control and, along with Colin Allen, he is co-author of Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong.
You can find him on Twitter, @WendellWallach
Featured Work
SEP 29, 2023 • Article
Envisioning Modalities for AI Governance: A Response from AIEI to the UN Tech Envoy
This submission details ways to enact an AI governance framework that builds on existing resources and can have an immediate effect.
JUL 27, 2023 • Podcast
Ways to Influence AI Policy and Governance, with Merve Hickok and Marc Rotenberg
Merve Hickok & Marc Rotenberg of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, a hugely impactful initiative for AI governance, join this AIEI podcast.
JUL 7, 2023 • Article
Achieving an International Framework for the Governance of AI
Senior Fellows Wendell Wallach and Anja Kaspersen argue in favor of a robust framework for the international governance of AI.
JUN 5, 2023 • Article
Are We Automating the Banality and Radicality of Evil?
Current iterations of AI are increasingly able to encourage subservience to a non-human master, telling potentially systematic untruths with emphatic confidence.
MAY 24, 2023 • Article
Silicon Valley is knowingly violating ethical AI principles. Society can’t respond if we let disagreements poison the debate.
With criticism of ChatGPT much in the news, we are also increasingly hearing about disagreements among thinkers who are critical of AI, writes Carnegie-Uehiro Fellow ...
MAR 16, 2023 • Podcast
From Another Angle: Trailer to the Series, with Host Hilary Sutcliffe
In this new Carnegie Council podcast series, Hilary Sutcliffe, a member of the Artificial Intelligence & Equality (AIEI) Board of Advisors, explores fresh perspectives from some ...
MAR 14, 2023 • Podcast
The Battle for Your Brain, with Nita A. Farahany
Now is the moment to extend human rights to encompass cognitive rights, proposes Duke Law School's Professor Nita A. Farahany in her just-published book "The ...
FEB 23, 2023 • Article
Is Humanity Risking Disaster? The Necessity of Autonomous Weapons System Governance
Expanding on themes discussed at the REAIM Summit in the Netherlands, Senior Fellow Wendell Wallach writes that humanity is risking disaster if governments don't start ...
FEB 7, 2023 • Podcast
Technology Governance and the Role of Multilateralism, with Amandeep Singh Gill
In this AIEI podcast, Wendell Wallach and Anja Kaspersen are joined by Ambassador Amandeep Singh Gill, UN Secretary-General Guterres' envoy on technology. They discuss some ...
JAN 24, 2023 • Article
Now is the Moment for a Systemic Reset of AI and Technology Governance
How can we ensure that the technologies currently being developed are used for the common good, rather than for the benefit of a select few? ...