LCSR Seminar: Debra Mathews

Description

Debra Mathews, associate director for research and programs for the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, will give a talk titled "Ethics and Governance of Emerging Technologies" for the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics.

Mathews is also an associate professor in the Department of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and serves as the ethics and governance lead within the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy. Her academic work focuses on ethics and policy issues raised by emerging technologies, with particular focus on genetics, stem cell science, neuroscience, synthetic biology, and artificial intelligence.

This is a virtual event; please attend the event by using the Zoom link on the department event webpage.

Abstract:

From genetic engineering to direct to consumer neurotechnology to ChatGPT, it is a standard refrain that science outpaces the development of ethical norms and governance. Further, technologies increasingly cross boundaries from medicine to the consumer market to law enforcement and beyond, in ways that our existing governance structures are not equipped to address. Finally, our standard governance approaches to addressing ethical issues related to new technologies fail to address population and societal-level impacts. This talk will demonstrate the above through a series of examples and describe ongoing work by the US National Academies and others to address these challenges.