A science fiction movie guide to ethical and responsible innovation
Channel: Risk Bites
Date: 2019-01-20

Can watching science fiction help guide ethical and responsible innovation (including responsible AI)?

This week's video draws on author, scientist and Risk Bites producer Andrew Maynard's book "Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies". Using twelve science fiction movies, and drawing on emerging technology trends from gene editing to artificial intelligence, the book provides an entertaining, compelling, and quite unique introduction to technology ethics. Essential reading for entrepreneurs, innovators, and anyone who wants to use new technologies to create a more just, equitable and vibrant future.

Movies include Jurassic Park, Minority Report, Limitless, Transcendence, Ex Machina, Contact, and more.

Read more at https://andrewmaynard.net/films-from-the-future/

#technology #ethics #risk #scifi #movies

USEFUL LINKS

“Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies”: https://andrewmaynard.net/films-from-the-future/

Big Picture Science: http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/sci-fi-future

CBC Spark Radio: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/419-1.4955886/andrew-maynard-1.4955887 

Singularity Hub: Sci-Fi Movies Are the Secret Weapon That Could Help Silicon Valley Grow Up. https://singularityhub.com/2018/11/17/sci-fi-movies-are-the-secret-weapon-that-could-help-silicon-valley-grow-up/#sm.0000jja2uq9p7e2tptg1hm5wqvl9i 

ASU Risk Innovation Lab: http://riskinnovation.asu.edu 

School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University http://sfis.asu.edu  

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Professor Andrew Maynard is a scientist, author, and leading expert on risk and the ethical and socially responsible development and use of new technologies. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, serves as co-chair of the Institute for the Advancement of Nutrition and Food Science (IAFNS) Board of Trustees, is a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research President’s Research Council, has served on a number of National Academies of Sciences committees, and has testified before congressional committees on several occasions.

As well as producing Risk Bites, Andrew’s work has appeared in publications ranging from The Washington Post and Scientific American, to Slate, Salon, and OneZero. He co-hosts the podcasts Mission: Interplanetary and Future Rising, and is the author of the books Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies, and Future Rising: A Journey from the Past to the Edge of Tomorrow.    

Andrew received his PhD in aerosol dynamics from the University of Cambridge in 1993, and is currently a professor in the Arizona State University School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and an Associate Dean in the ASU College of Global Futures.

More at http://andrewmaynard.net