10 Facts About Wendell Wallach

Wendell Wallach was born on April 21,1946 and is a bioethicist and author focused on the ethics and governance of emerging technologies, in particular artificial intelligence and neuroscience.

Wendell Wallach has written two books on the ethics of emerging technologies: "Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong" and "A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control", which was republished by Sentient Publications in 2024.

Wendell Wallach received his Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in 1968.

Wendell Wallach sold his interests in both companies in 2001.

In 2004 and 2005, Wendell Wallach taught undergraduate seminars at Yale University about robot ethics, and in 2005 he became chair of the Technology and Ethics Study Group at Yale University ISPS Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.

In 2009, Wendell Wallach published Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong, which discusses issues in AI ethics and machine morality.

Wendell Wallach won the World Technology Network award for media and journalism in 2015, in recognition of his second book, A Dangerous Master: How to keep technology from slipping beyond our control, which discusses the ethics and governance of various emerging technologies.

Wendell Wallach's hobbies include skiing, hiking, and building stained glass windows.

Wendell Wallach later took a position as health officer and as clinician based in Chattanooga, Tennessee for the Georgia-Tennessee Health Authority serving Appalachia and was the Director of Health of Waterbury, Connecticut until his death.

Peter Wendell Wallach was an author and "political scientist specializing in American Constitutional law, and contemporary German politics", who died in 1995.