Jeff Behrends is a director of ethics and technology initiatives at the Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is also a co-director of Embedded EthiCS, a program that teaches ethical reasoning to budding computer scientists.

In this episode we cover: what is ethics and why it matters, how it differs from morality, making ethics cool, and teaching it to students at Harvard via the Embedded Ethics program.

Show Notes

About and from Prof. Jeff Behrends:

• Website: https://www.jeffbehrends.com
• https://twitter.com/jeff_behrends 
• Embedded EthiCS
• Google Scholar
• Jeff Behrends, Ethics Education in Computer Science: The Embedded EthiCS Approach
• John Basl & Jeff Behrends, Why Everyone Has It Wrong About the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles [2019 C4eJ 40]  

Book recommendations: 

• The Passion of the Western Mind
• Whatever Happened to Good and Evil?
• Weapons of Mass Destruction
• The City We Became
• How Smart Machines Think

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• Music used in this podcast: Simplex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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