Author Archives: Jack Stilgoe

I went along to the March for Science in Denver. I was there in part as an observer. As someone who studies the relationship between science and politics, this was a rare opportunity to see public displays of affections and annoyances … Continue reading →

At the start of 2017, I ventured through the snow to KGNU, Boulder’s community radio station, to record an interview with Mark Mardell for The World This Weekend on the BBC. They edited out my citation for the quote at the … Continue reading →

During a visit to the wonderful people at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation and Society, Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross invited me into the podcast booth to talk about self-driving cars. This connects to a piece on the … Continue reading →

I made this podcast during a recent meeting called ‘Frankenstein’s Shadow‘, which took place at the same time (200 years on) and place (pretty much) as Mary Shelley began writing her great novel. The bulk of the podcast is a talk given … Continue reading →

This is the text of a recent letter published in Science, for those who can’t get behind the paywall Science 4 September 2015: Vol. 349 no. 6252 p. 1064 DOI: 10.1126/science.349.6252.1064-c The 17 July special section on Artificial Intelligence (AI) … Continue reading →

This story is, I think, an interesting example of Responsible Research and Innovation in action. It is a story of an institute and its researchers learning from controversy and from their own experiments in public dialogue.  In the summer of … Continue reading →

I’ve just published a paper in the journal of Science and Engineering Ethics which gives a summary of one of the ideas in the book – technology as a social experiment – and develops it to discuss how we might think … Continue reading →