Don Howard

Department of Philosophy
Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values
University of Notre Dame

Media Relations

“Einstein und sein letzter Sommer in Caputh”
Exile: Leo Baeck Institute Podcast Series, December 21, 2023.

“In Defense of (Virtuous) Autonomous Weapons”
Dakota Digital Discussions, February 22, 2023.

“Technology and Ethics”
Drive Time. Voice of Islam, June 6, 2023.

“Summer in Caputh”
Exile: Leo Baeck Institute Podcast Series, November 15, 2022.

“Einstein”
Since the World’s Been Turning Podcast, February 2, 2022.

“Pressing Issues of the Future”
STEM Spots Podcast, January 24, 2022.

“Scientists as Activists, Human Rights, and Ethics with Don Howard”
My Nuclear Life Podcast, September 15, 2021.

"The Good News about Technology Ethics"
AI and Faith Newsletter, January 30, 2020

“Quantum Interest: Notre Dame Restores Forgotten Letters of Scholars’ Physics Debates”
Notre Dame Stories, February 3, 2020

 “From Einstein’s Philosophy to the Ethics of High Technology: A Conversation With Don Howard”
Anthenaeum Review Podcast, March 7, 2019

“Whether Robots Deserve Human Rights Isn't the Correct Question. Whether Humans Really Have Them Is”
NBC Think, April 11, 2018.

“When Being a Scientist is Politically Dangerous”
Science Friction, Australian National Broadcasting Corporation, April 29, 2017

“The Robot Scabs Are Coming to Take Your Jobs”
CNN, April 15, 2017

"The Robotic Moral Code – Programming Ethics into Machines"
Spark Dialog with Elizabeth Fernandez, February 14, 2017

"Can Machines Become Moral"
Big Questions Online, October 23, 2016

"Don Howard on Robot Ethics."
Dave Saldana
SRPoiSE: The Consortium for Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science.

"Ethics-DARPA Hard"
Don Howard
InsideSources, May 7, 2014

"Robot 'Code of Ethics' Could Move From Sci-Fi to Real Life"
Nidhi Subbaraman
NBC News, April 28, 2014

"Ahead of the Curve: Anticipating Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues Posed by Emerging Weapons Technologies"
Inside Michiana
WNIT Public Television, April 13, 2014

"Punch the Accelerator on Self-Driving Cars: The technology exists to save millions of lives. So why are regulators hitting the brakes?"
Don Howard and Mark Mills
Wall Street Journal, February 20, 2014

"Albert Einstein"
Talking History
Newstalk.ie, Dublin, 106-108 fm, May 20, 2013

"Challenging Einstein Usually a Losing Venture"
Seth Borenstein
USA Today, September 23, 2011

Lyman Briggs College Commencement Address
Michigan State University
May 7, 2011