Professor Clinton Andrews

Thursday, November 11, 2021

5 PM EST

IEEE SSIT Distinguished Lecture

Yale Technology and Ethics Working Group

This will be a ZOOM presentation.

The ZOOM link is: https://yale.zoom.us/j/98196443160

Dr. Andrews writes that if we want the benefits of innovations, must we simply accept that they sometimes bring unintended adverse consequences? Versions of this question haunt many who worry about the social implications of technology. Jurisprudence is often reactive, focused on remediating obvious wrongs. Public policy is only sometimes anticipatory, and often it too requires evidence of harm to justify action. Technological design processes could include impact assessment steps, but not all do. Adoption in the marketplace may ignore spillover effects. The failure to anticipate adverse consequences is sometimes framed as a moral lapse, but it could equally be about competence or incentives. This talk considers the relative merits of analogizing, projecting, reflecting, reasoning, discussing, and experimenting as systematic approaches to anticipating unintended consequences of innovation. It weighs the efficacy of such approaches against current reactive remedies, highlighting the importance of tailoring approach to context. Finally, in a bid to increase our competence in anticipating unintended adverse consequences, it proposes a mapping of approaches to contexts.

Dr. Andrews is a professor of urban planning, director of the Center for Green Building, and associate dean for research at Rutgers University’s Bloustein School. He was educated at Brown and MIT in engineering and planning and worked previously in the private sector and at Princeton University. He teaches urban planning and public informatics courses and performs research on how people use the built environment. He publishes both scholarly and popular articles and his books include Humble Analysis: The Practice of Joint Fact-Finding, Regulating Regional Power Systems, and Industrial Ecology and Global Change. He recently completed service as co-editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and a licensed Professional Engineer. Andrews is a Fellow of AAAS, a winner of IEEE’s 3rd Millennium Medal, and current president of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology.

 

For members in the New Haven area the date is Thursday, November 11, 2021, at 5 PM EST. Other times based on location are:

 

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London (United Kingdom – England)	Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 10:00:00 pm
New York (USA – New York)	Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 5:00:00 pm
Melbourne (Australia – Sydney)	Friday, November 12, 2021 at 7:00:00 am

 

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The Technology and Ethics Working Research Group is a project of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics – Tech & Ethics Chair: Joe Carvalko, October 14, 2021.

 

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