Category: Ethics

The 13th IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2026) is designed to explore development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Rather than reflexively accepting the need to cut budgets, services, and investment, let us take the time to critically examine the logic of austerity.

You can double SSIT’s good trouble when you make a gift now to the SSIT Technology for Humanity campaign before 2025 ends.

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SASIGD 2026 brings together global innovators to advance Responsible and Sustainable AI across seven tracks

Digital enterprises have become increasingly monopolistic, individualistic beyond narcissistic to the point of lamentably solipsistic, devastatingly careless of human potential, and environmentally wasteful.

One of the biggest challenges of teaching such a course is the remarkable pace of change in technology and the societal response. The curriculum is in near constant evolution and must explicitly address how students should develop their continuous learning skills.

More than anything, building the future we want requires the courage and hope to imagine something radically different from the world we live in now.

The 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS25) themed “AI Evolution and Revolution” was held September 10-12 at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, U.S.A..

Prof Joseph Herkert presented Where did you get that made up? – Professions of an Engineering Ethics ‘Trail Paver‘ as…  Read More

SSIT’s August 2025 Podcast is now LIVE on IEEE TV

IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society
“Al Evolution and Revolution”
September 10-12, 2025
Hosted by Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California

We examine social media’s profound influence, delving into its effects on self-esteem, media consumption habits, and exposure to targeted marketing.

The choices for development, roads, trains, and transport are just as essential to the social impacts of technology as the technologies themselves.

The deadline for the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society Special Issue on Ethical Innovation with/in Music Technology has been extended to December 31, 2025.

CUCCR approaches solid waste by harnessing data collection to understand the waste flows within the university, using a tucked-away basement space to give waste materials a chance to pause and potentially be repurposed before being landfilled or recycled.

Over 150 scholars and practitioners from industry, academia, government, and civil society gathered at IEEE ETHICS 2025 to examine questions of ethics and social justice in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

SSIT is participating in the IEEE Digital Privacy Initiative, a program under IEEE Future Directions that “focuses on a user-centric perspective—looking at the digital privacy needs of the individuals rather than the security of data, products, and organizations—such as providing individuals with user-enabled privacy controls and promoting privacy at the outset of product and service lifecycles.”

Research has shown that cognitive training done on computers results in modest learning gains with the potential to minimize cognitive decline in older adults. Indifferent attitudes toward the chatbot on the part of participants suggest that developers need to adopt a different approach in designing a more interactive and human-like experience, as older adults may have unique preferences and requirements compared to more tech-savvy users.

We should remember that the smartphone’s persuasive power-though generated through interactions with the device itself-is, at base, due to the very human intentions embedded within the device’s design and functionalities.