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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

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on data-driven intelligence systems and algorithmically assisted analysis, the risk emerges that errors originating in outdated information, flawed databases, or automation bias may propagate rapidly through the operational decision-making chain.

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).

The concept of broadcasting had its roots in a form of the telephone: a technique of narrowcasting where wealthy people could subscribe to have a second telephone line connected to their home.

IEEE Sections Congress 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland, August 23, 2026: Kerala, India, Section Chair Dr Manoj BS extends welcome to ISTAS26, Heather Love, IEEE SSIT VP Conferences. 

The designers, engineers, and computer scientists we teach today will shape the systems of tomorrow–we need to teach them to center justice, not just solve problems.

IEEE Ethics Week 2026 is coming up 12–20 September 2026.  Click here to hear Connie Kelly,  Region 4 Director, speaking about the IEEE Code of Ethics and the importance of IEEE Ethics Education.

This September, IEEE SSIT is launching the first-ever IEEE Ethics Week, a worldwide celebration bringing together engineers, researchers, educators, students, and technology leaders to explore the ethical questions shaping today’s technologies and tomorrow’s innovations.