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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.



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The Latest News

15 Dec 2011
The Atlantic
Drone-Ethics Briefing: What a Leading Robot Expert Told the CIA
  Robots, Ethics, and National Intelligence



15 Aug 2011
Engineering & Technology
  "Drone Warfare and the Geneva Convention"


12 May 2011
SLO New Times
"Like" It or Not
  The Ethics of Facebook



Robot Ethics Book

Dec 2011: We published a new book with MIT Press, Robot Ethics: The Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics, the first volume of its kind. Review in Nature journal (5 Jan 2012) here.


Nanoethics
Book

Mar 2010: We published a new book with Wiley-Blackwell, What Is Nanotechnology and Why Does It Matter?: From Science to Ethics. Please click here for the press release (with link to the publisher's page) and here for a recent review.

Human Enhancement
Ethics Report

Aug 2009: We released a new report, "Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers", funded by the US National Science Foundation. Please click here for the press release and here for the full report (0.9 MB).

 
 
 
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