The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future with Andrew Maynard
Faculty Fellow Andrew Maynard is interested in what science fiction movies can tell us about technology and society. His new book – Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies – is out November 15. Using popular movies to discuss emerging technologies and what they mean for our future, the book tackles many not-so-far-fetched technologies including: human cloning, […]
Will Your Next Burger Begin Life in a Lab?
Center Scholar Walter Johnson, along with Faculty Fellow Andrew Maynard and research scientist Sheril Kirshenbaum, recently wrote for The Washington Post about the Impossible Burger, a plant-based food genetically modified to taste like meat. The piece covers recent regulatory discussions about “cultured meat,” including fights with interest groups over calling such products “meat” at all. Additionally, recent polling shows American households […]
GETS Keynote Speaker Erica Kochi on AI and Human Rights
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/469022112″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /] Erica Kochi, co-founder of UNICEF Innovation, was a keynote speaker at the Sixth Annual Governance of Emerging Technology & Science Conference. While at the conference she sat down with Faculty Fellow Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross for an engaging episode of the Future Out Loud podcast. The episode covers a wide range of topics, including: Is […]
Future Out Loud feat. GETS Speaker Gillian K. Hadfield
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Faculty Fellow Andrew Maynard on the Risks of AI
Andrew Maynard – LSI Faculty Fellow, Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and Director of ASU’s Risk Innovation Lab – presents the potential risks associated with the development of artificial intelligence (AI). This excellent video briefly discusses 10 risks that should be in the minds of AI researchers and consumers alike (though, Maynard […]
Faculty Fellows Join Nature Nanotechnology Advisory Panel
Nature Nanotechnology, the preeminent journal on nanoscience and nanotechnology, has introduced an advisory panel of experts to guide the journal’s coverage at the intersection of nanotechnology and society. Faculty Fellows Andrew Maynard and Diana Bowman have been selected to be among seven or so experts from around the world to serve on this advisory panel. Scientific and technological progress […]
Faculty Fellows Bowman & Maynard to Study Gene Doping
Faculty Fellows Diana Bowman and Andrew Maynard we just awarded funding from ASU’s Global Sports Institute (GSI) for a project on “Gene Doping” – the use of CRISPR to alter genes in humans and produce perfect athletes. The award was part of GSI’s “Sport 2036” Grant Program to explore the future of sports. Emerging and cutting-edge technologies […]
Center Fellows on Regulating Nanomaterials in Cosmetics
Faculty Fellows Diana Bowman and Andrew Maynard, with ASU College of Law alum and Research Fellow Nathaniel May, authored a chapter on regulating nanomaterials in cosmetics in the recently published Analysis of Cosmetic Products, Second Edition. Cosmetics are big business with estimated global sales of $675 billion by 2020. Competition in the market drives innovation […]
Wednesday Web Watch for February 4, 2015
In BRINK, University of Michigan’s Andrew Maynard emphasizes that the development, release and use of emerging technologies requires proper due diligence each step of the way. Maynard discusses assessing the benefits of novel technologies against the risks and establishing vigilant, productive ways for the benefits to come up ahead of the risks. While mistakes have […]
Occasional Speaker – Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Thinking Differently About Risk: New Approaches to Connecting Evidence to Decisions with Andrew Maynard Tuesday, October 7th, 2014 3:00 – 4:00 pm ASU Tempe Campus McCord Hall 176 Andrew Maynard is the NSF International Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Director of the University of Michigan […]