Peter Asaro is a philosopher of science and technology at The New School in New York City. He researches the social, cultural, political, legal, and ethical dimensions of AI, automation, and autonomous technologies. He co-edited Machine Ethics and Robot Ethics (2017) and has written widely cited papers on autonomous weapons, as well as on the legal and moral issues raised by law enforcement robots and predictive policing.
He previously developed technologies in AI, machine learning, computer vision, and robotics at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and Iguana Robotics. He also developed the natural language interface for the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine.
Prof. Asaro co-founded and chairs the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), and he also chairs the Stop Killer Robots global campaign.