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Atlanta, GA | Posted: July 24, 2017
Rebecca Keane
Director of Communications
404.894.1720
rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu
Summary Sentence:
Jason Borenstein, associate director of the Center for Ethics and Technology, presented on the ethical responsibilities engineers have related to the design and use of self-driving cars at the annual meeting of the National Society of Engineers.
Full Summary:
Jason Borenstein, director of Graduate Research Ethics Programs and associate director of the Center for Ethics and Technology, presented on the ethical responsibilities engineers have related to the design and use of a self-driving car at the annual meeting of the National Society of Professional Engineers that took place on July 19 - 23, 2017.
Jason BorenstienJason Borenstein, director of Graduate Research Ethics Programs and associate director of the Center for Ethics and Technology, presented on the ethical responsibilities engineers have related to the design and use of a self-driving car at the annual meeting of the National Society of Professional Engineers that took place on July 19 - 23, 2017.
The School of Public Policy’s Jason Borenstein presented “Self-Driving Cars: An Examination of Ethical Issues at the Micro and Macro Scale” at the annual National Society of Professional Engineers meeting that took place on July 19 - 23, 2017, in Atlanta. Borenstein is director of Graduate Research Ethics Programs and associate director of the Center for Ethics and Technology at Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. His co-presenter was Keith Miller, Ph.D., a computer scientist at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
The overarching focus of the presentation was the ethical responsibilities engineers have related to the design and use of a self-driving car. Borenstein discussed a variety of timely and important ethical issues including the trolley problem and how drivers might interact with the technology.
