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 Nov 2023: We will be giving a series of talks in Europe on: technology ethics (8 Nov, Prague) and space ethics/security (9 Nov, Geneva; 10 Nov, Prague; 30 Nov, Munich). 26 Sept 2023: We will be giving a talk on technology ethics at CIGI's new Digital Policy Hub. 13-14 July 2023: We will be organizing an expert workshop at Cal Poly on the ethical/social impacts of AI kitchens and robot cooks. 23 May 2023: We will be giving a talk on outer space ethics, incl. security concerns, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA. 10 May 2023: We will be giving a talk on technology ethics for the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Executive Education in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 3 May 2023: We will be giving a talk on emerging threats at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. 20 April 2023: Prof. John Sullins (Sonoma State Univ.) will give a university lecture here on experiments with inner dialogue for social robotics, or "the conscience of the machine." 30-31 March 2023: We will be organizing an expert workshop on outer space cybersecurity at Stanford University. 23 February 2023: We will be participating in the US National Space Council's meeting of the Users' Advisory Group in Washington DC, followed by a meeting at the White House. 7 November 2022: We will be participating in an expert meeting of Schmidt Futures' AI2050 initiative in Portola Valley, CA. | The Latest News 22 November 2023 Fall 2023 28 August 2023 21 August 2023 18 August 2023 3 July 2023 30 June 2023 22 May 2023 17 May 2023 5 May 2023 24 April 2023 9 April 2023 30-31 March 2023 16 December 2022 12 December 2022 8 December 2022 3 October 2022 12 September 2022 More news here. |
Selected Publications • Paper: Deepfake Pornography and the Ethics of Non-Veridical Representations, in Philosophy & Technology • Report: A Machine Learning Evaluation Framework for Place-based Algorithmic Patrol Management • Report: Evaluating Metrics for Impact Quantification • Report: AI-Assisted Authorship: How to Assign Credit in Synthetic Scholarship • Chapter: Does Just War Theory Extend to the Space Frontier?, in Military Space Ethics • Paper: Rule by Automation: How Automated Decision Systems Promote Freedom and Equality, in Moral Philosophy and Politics • Chapter: Outer Space as a New Frontier for Technology Ethics, in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology • Paper: Big Brother Goes to School: Best Practices for Campus Surveillance Technologies During the COVID-19 Pandemic, in Techné (Society of Philosophy and Technology) • Report: Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Predictive Policing: A Roadmap for Research, funded by the US National Science Foundation • Book: Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence, with Oxford University Press • Report: UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) Traffic Management: Recommendations for Seamless Integration, with WhiteFox Defense Technologies • Report: Ethics of Hacking Back: 6 Arguments from Armed Conflict to Zombies, funded by the US National Science Foundation • Report: Autonomous Vehicles, Ethics & Law: Toward an Overlapping Consensus, with New America Foundation • Chapter: Why Ethics Matter for Autonomous Cars, in a Daimler and Benz Foundation book • Report: Enhanced Warfighters: Ethics, Risk, and Policy, funded by The Greenwall Foundation • Book: Robot Ethics: The Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics, with MIT Press • Book: What Is Nanotechnology and Why Does It Matter?: From Science to Ethics, with Wiley-Blackwell • Report: Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers, funded by the US National Science Foundation • Report: Autonomous Military Robotics: Risk, Ethics, and Design, funded by the US Office of Naval Research More publications here. |
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