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IEEE SSIT Vice President Conferences Heather Love sent us these photos of the October 14, 2026, ISTAS 2026 Conference Inaugural.

IEEE SSIT Vice President (Standards), Ruth Lewis, has been elected a Member-at-Large of the IEEE Standards Association for 2027-2028.

If we abandon or restrict discussions of the singularity or superintelligence, and if this event were to transition from prediction to reality, our ethical and policy preparations would be insufficient, and the public, lacking prior expectation, would fall into even greater panic.

SSIT is at the IEEE TechSummit on Ethical AI in Budapest, Hungary, 2 October 2026

The first slate was approved as of September 28, 2026, and it consists of the following four candidates as recommended by the Nominations and Appointments Committee (in alphabetical order): Maxine Cohen (R3), Sagar Gujjunoori (R10), Ketra Schmitt (R7), and Ebonee Walker (R3).

If you intend to run as a petition candidate, you must complete the declaration form with details of your self-nomination form

The challenge before researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and industry is not simply to build smarter medical technologies, but to design socio–technical ecosystems that responsibly integrate these technologies into society.

The IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS) is a conference series sponsored by the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT). Launched in 2014, ETHICS draws together the global, multicultural, interdisciplinary community of technology and ethics scholars and practitioners from industry, academia, government, and civil society.

As IEEE’s inaugural Ethics Week 2026 comes to a close, we celebrate a week that demonstrated our shared ethical values across the full spectrum of our organization.

As modern armed forces rely more heavily on data-driven intelligence systems and algorithmically assisted analysis, the risk emerges that errors originating in outdated information, flawed databases, or automation bias may propagate rapidly through the operational decision-making chain.

For the inaugural IEEE Ethics Week 2026, we present an interview with Dr. Tom Creely, 2026 Ethics Week Chair, exploring the question: “What is ethics?” Is it a set of rules? Compliance? Knowing right from wrong? Or a philosophical framework?

IEEE President Mary Ellen Randall calls upon members worldwide to join IEEE Ethics Week and take an active role in shaping the future of responsible, trusted technology for the benefit of humanity.

Collective action problems can be resolved only through the coordination of individual actions and not through the unilateral action of any single individual. For this reason, such problems pose a distinctive challenge to engineering ethics educators: how to engage and motivate students to take seriously macro-ethical problems that they—as mere individuals—may lack sufficient incentive or power to resolve alone.

The Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) is seeking nominations for the President-Elect of the Society.

There has never been a more crucial moment for IEEE SSIT to lead this conversation on ethics across IEEE.

IEEE Ethics Week is a week dedicated to exploring the ethical questions that come with engineering, research, and technology, raising awareness, and having meaningful conversations.

DARRYL LEE PALMER JR. May 19, 1971 – August 30, 2026 was a visionary leader in the engineering world.

Celebrate IEEE Ethics Week by joining the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT).

Join us for a discussion exploring the complex ethical challenges emerging in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape and what these challenges mean for engineering education and practice.