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

27 June 2025: We will be giving a talk related to AI kitchens and robot cooks at the Society for Philosophy and Technology's 2025 conference at the Eindhoven Institute of Technology (Netherlands).

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.

More events here and here.

The Latest News

1 January 2026
Wired
AI Labor Is Boring. AI Lust Is Big Business

14 December 2025
The Internet is Crack (podcast)
AI, from War to Wheels

20 November 2025
Huffington Post
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

18 November 2025
Scientific American
Can Digital Ghosts Help Us Heal?

4 November 2025
New York Post
Inside the Super Steamy World of AI Sex Bots — Here’s What Really Happens When You Get Down with Digital Hotties

23 October 2025
Wired
ChatGPT’s Horny Era Could Be Its Stickiest Yet

10 September 2025
Vanity Fair
Hollywood’s Monkey-Selfie Problem: Who Would Actually Own a Movie Made by AI?

5 September 2025
Prindle Post
Robot Kitchens, AI Cooks, and the Meaning of Food

7 August 2025
Substack
Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits

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

More news here.

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

    • More publications here.

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