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Jason Millar

Jason Millar

Associate Professor

School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation

Research Supervisor Design Ethics and Fundamental Issues of Law and Justice Values and Norms Systems Professional Ethics Science and Technology Studies

Jason Millar is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation at the University of Ottawa, with a cross-appointment in the Department of Philosophy. He holds the Canada Research Chair T2 in the Ethical Engineering of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and is Director of the Canadian Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Ethical Design Lab (CRAiEDL.ca). Jason is also a Faculty Member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society (uOttawa), leads the AI and Robotics Research and Engagement Cluster at uOttawa's Institute for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP), and is a member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. He researches the ethical engineering of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), with a focus on empowering engineers to integrate ethical thinking into their daily engineering workflow. Jason’s work focuses primarily on the ethics, policy and the ethical engineering of automated vehicles, artificial intelligence, healthcare robotics, social and military robotics. Jason has a degree in engineering physics, and worked for several years as an engineer before turning his full-time attention to issues in philosophy and applied ethics. He has authored book chapters, policy reports, and articles on the ethics and governance of robotics and AI. Jason has provided expert testimony at the United Nations CCW, and the Senate of Canada, on the ethics of highly automated military robots. His research has been cited at the Supreme Court of Canada. He consults internationally on policy, and ethical engineering issues in emerging robotics and AI technology. His work has been featured in the media, including articles in publications such as WIRED and The Guardian, and interviews with the BBC, CBC and NPR.

Selected Publications

  • Social Failure Modes in Technology and the Ethics of AI: An Engineering Perspective

    N/A — The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI, pp. 431–449, Oxford University Press, New York , 2020

  • Privacy, Ethics, and Contact-tracing Apps

    Scassa, T., Millar, J., Bronson, K. — Vulnerable: The Law and Policy of COVID-19, pp. 265–276, University of Ottawa Press, Canada (Eds. Flood, C. M., MacDonnell, V., Philpott, J., Thériault, S., & Venkatapuram, S.) , 2020

  • Lessons Learned: An Ethics Roadmap for Real-Time Predictions

    Moon, A., Kim, S., Rismani, S., Van, P. A., Millar, J., & Roome, C. — PAPIs Europe 2018 , 2018

  • Hacking Metaphors in the Regulation of Robotics

    Jones, M., Millar, J. — The Oxford Handbook on the Law and Regulation of Technology, pp. 597–619, Oxford University Press (Eds. Brownsword, R., Scotford, E., Yeung, K.) , 2017

  • Ethics Setting for Autonomous Vehicles

    Millar, J. — Robot Ethics 2.0, Oxford University Press (Eds. Lin, P., Abney, K., Jenkins, R.) , 2017