Between self-driving cars, social media and increasing automation in the workplace, technology is transforming our lives — sometimes in scary ways.
According to one of the 24 Canada 150 Research Chairs, that means morality and ethics need to be part of the conversation.
Azim Shariff will be the Research Chair in Moral Psychology at the University of British Columbia.
He is currently a social psychologist at the University of California, Irvine and once back in Canada, will focus his research
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