Jeff Behrends on ethics

Jeff Behrends is a director of ethics and technology initiatives at the Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is also a co-director of Embedded EthiCS, a program that teaches ethical reasoning to budding computer scientists.

In this episode we cover: what is ethics and why it matters, how it differs from morality, making ethics cool, and teaching it to students at Harvard via the Embedded Ethics program.

Show Notes

About and from Prof. Jeff Behrends:

Website: https://www.jeffbehrends.comhttps://twitter.com/jeff_behrends Embedded EthiCSGoogle ScholarJeff Behrends, Ethics Education in Computer Science: The Embedded EthiCS ApproachJohn Basl & Jeff Behrends, Why Everyone Has It Wrong About the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles [2019 C4eJ 40]  

Book recommendations: 

The Passion of the Western MindWhatever Happened to Good and Evil?Weapons of Mass DestructionThe City We BecameHow Smart Machines Think

Luminary Podcast:

Visit us:  https://www.luminary.fmFollow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/luminaryfmLuminary on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/luminary-fm 

Music:

Music used in this podcast: Simplex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Chipper Doodle Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

The post Jeff Behrends on ethics appeared first on Luminary.fm.