Wolf Schäfer
Wolf Schäfer
Professor and Chair (ret.)
1209 Computer Science
Phone:
(631) 632-7924
Email:
Interests
AI plus Ethics, Automotive Ethics, History of Science & Technology
Biography
Dr. Wolf Schäfer received his higher education in Marburg, Bonn, King's College London, Munich, and Bremen; he earned an MA in History, International Politics, and Philosophy and a PhD in History of Science and Technology and Social History
Research
Wolf Schäfer’s current research interests are in
• the management and organization of big technoscience projects in the US and Germany (their nuclear fission and rocket programs) during WWII
• ethical frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine learning (smart ethics)
• design as a core category of the present (engineering) age
• comparative policies of regulating emerging disruptive innovation (especially for autonomous vehicles)
Awards
Wolf Schäfer won the Berlin Prize in 2013 and was awarded the Anna-Maria Kellen Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.
Teaching Summary
VIP Program in Automotive Ethics, see https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/vertically-integrated-projects/teams/_team_page/team_page.php?team=Automotive%20Ethics