Research summary
Robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) offer tremendous potential benefits to society. But they can also reinforce and amplify human biases and discrimination, create new injustices and disrupt democracies. We need ways to ensure these technologies are designed with a more sophisticated and explicit focus on their potential ethical and social implications.
Dr. Jason Millar, Canada Research Chair in the Ethical Engineering of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, is using his dual background in engineering and philosophy to help anticipate and avoid the negative impacts of robotics and AI and enhance the positive ones. He and his research team are studying ethical issues in these areas to better understand the ethical landscape and inform engineering and policy decisions.