Governing Emerging Technologies

Catalog description

Examines the variety of ways in which societies make collective decisions or govern science and technology. Focuses on a particular category of science and technology: the set of emerging technologies like nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and robotics, genetic modification and synthetic biology, cognitive science and neurotechnology, geoengineering, and others that pose particular problems of high stakes, high uncertainty and ambiguous novelty. Closely allied with the research agenda of numerous faculty in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, especially those in the Center for Nanotechnology in Society, the Risk Innovation Lab, and others; exposes students to inquiry and skills directly from the research front. Students perform numerous research tasks.