{"id":6,"date":"2012-07-01T22:30:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T22:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2021-01-16T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T13:27:07","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Blay-Whitby_cropped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4\" src=\"http:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Blay-Whitby_cropped-300x125.png\" alt=\"Blay Whitby_cropped\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Blay-Whitby_cropped-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Blay-Whitby_cropped-500x209.png 500w, https:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Blay-Whitby_cropped.png 671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr Blay Whitby is a philosopher and ethicist concerned with the social impact of new and emerging technologies. He is a leading researcher in the field and the author of many books, chapters and papers on the subject including &#8220;Do You Want a Robot Lover?&#8221;, \u00a0\u201cOn Computable Morality\u201d, \u201cReflections on Artificial Intelligence: The Legal, Moral and Ethical Dimensions and \u201cArtificial Intelligence, A Beginner\u2019s Guide\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Whitby is a member of the Advisory Board of the All Party Parliamentary Group on AI. He is an ethics expert for the European Commission, a member of the Strategic Ethics Committee of BCS The Chartered Institute of IT and an ethical advisor to the Royal Academy of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Widening public engagement in science through debate is important to him and he is a regular speaker in community settings as well as having participated in several very high impact science\/art collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>He currently lectures at \u00a0The University of Sussex, Imperial College, Ada College, Brighton and Sussex Medical School and is a visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Whitby is happy to be involved with and support new research projects, which would benefit from his expertise in ethics and the social effects of emerging technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Blay Whitby is a philosopher and ethicist concerned with the social impact of new and emerging technologies. He is a leading researcher in the field and the author of many books, chapters and papers on the subject including &#8220;Do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blaywhitby.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}