Patrick Lin Editor & Author

Patrick Lin, Ph.D., is a philosophy professor and director of the Ethics & Emerging Sciences Group at Cal Poly. He is also affiliated with Stanford Law School, Notre Dame, and World Economic Forum; and previously with Stanford's School of Engineering, the U.S. Naval Academy, and Dartmouth College. On the ethics of emerging technologies, he has provided counsel to the U.S. Department of Defense, the United Nations, Google, Apple, and many other government and industry organizations. Ryan Jenkins, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of philosophy and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics & Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University. He focuses in normative ethics (especially consequentialism) and applied ethics, including military ethics and emerging technologies such as driverless cars, robots, and autonomous weapons. Keith Abney, A.B.D., is senior lecturer in the Philosophy Department and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics & Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, with research that includes work on demarcating science from non-science, moral status and sustainability, astronaut and space bioethics, patenting life, human enhancement, just war theory and the use of autonomous weapons, robot ethics, and other aspects of the ethical implications of emerging sciences and technologies.