About
Based at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group is a non-partisan organization focused on the risk, ethical, and social impact of emerging sciences and technologies.
Events
6-7 May 2025: We will be organizing our third workshop on AI kitchens and robot cooks at the Pontifical Academy for Life at the Vatican (Rome).
14 March 2025: Dr. Jacob Oakley will be giving a talk on space cybersecurity at Cal Poly, Advanced Technologies Lab (ATL), 2:00-3:30p.
3 March 2025: We will be giving a talk on space cybersecurity at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
17 December 2024: We will be giving a talk on space cybersecurity to ISC2, Washington DC.
25 September 2024: We will be giving a talk on AI kitchens and robot cooks at the Food AI Summit, UC Berkeley.
28 August 2024: We will be giving a talk on space cybersecurity at Space ISAC, Colorado Springs.
21 August 2024: We will be giving a talk on AI kitchens at the National Academies of Sciences, Beckman Center at UC Irvine.
23-24 May 2024: We will be organizing our second workshop on AI kitchens and robot cooks at the Czech Academy of Sciences, CETE-P in Prague.
23 May 2024: We will be giving a talk on outer space cybersecurity at the International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles.
8 May 2024: We will be giving a talk on outer space cybersecurity at RSA Conference in San Francisco.
More events here and here.
| The Latest News
30 June 2025
Philosophy and Technology
The Risks of AI-Generated, Hyper-Personalized Digital Advertisements
28 April 2025
Cal Poly News
Robots in the Kitchen: Philosophy Faculty Host Vatican Workshop on Emerging Tech
4 April 2025
Journal of Military Ethics
Recent Insights in Responsible AI Development and Deployment in National Defense: A Review of Literature, 2022–2024
5 March 2025
Harvard Divinty School
The Soul’s Companion: Altered Consciousness, Embodied Practices, and the Power of Rhythm
21 February 2025
Aeon
Chatbots of the Dead
19 February 2025
Via Satellite
Cyber Threat Scenarios: Cubesat Hack
6 February 2025
Dark Reading
US Cybersecurity Efforts for Spacecraft Are Up in the Air
30 October 2024
Via Satellite
Why Space Cybersecurity Needs More Imagination
October 2024
AI Impacts
Our prize-winning essay: Machines and Moral Judgment
30 September 2024
Cybersecurity Intelligence
Space: The Last Cybersecurity Frontier?
19 September 2024
Al Jazeera
Lebanon Explosions Raise Alarm About Supply Chain Security, Safety of Tech
29 August 2024
The Conversation
Robots Are Coming to the Kitchen—What That Could Mean for Society and Culture
3 July 2024
The Conversation
To Guard Against Cyberattacks in Space, Researchers Ask ‘What If?'
More news here.
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Selected Reports
Outer Space Cyberattacks: Generating Novel Scenarios to Avoid Surprise, funded by the US National Science Foundation
Space Data Ethics: The Next Frontier in Responsible Leadership, for NASA / National Space Council UAG
A Machine Learning Evaluation Framework for Place-based Algorithmic Patrol Management, funded by the US National Science Foundation
Evaluating Metrics for Impact Quantification, funded by Northwestern's CASMI
AI-Assisted Authorship: How to Assign Credit in Synthetic Scholarship
Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Predictive Policing: A Roadmap for Research, funded by the US National Science Foundation
Ethics of Hacking Back: 6 Arguments from Armed Conflict to Zombies, funded by the US National Science Foundation
Autonomous Vehicles, Ethics & Law: Toward an Overlapping Consensus, with New America Foundation
Enhanced Warfighters: Ethics, Risk, and Policy, funded by The Greenwall Foundation
Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers, funded by the US National Science Foundation
Autonomous Military Robotics: Risk, Ethics, and Design, funded by the US Office of Naval Research
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