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.
From the rapid deployment of transformative technologies like generative AI to the critical need for integrity in scientific publication, there has never been a more opportune time for IEEE to highlight the importance of ethical issues and ways to address them.
To meet this moment with a unified voice, the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) is proud to announce the launch of the first annual IEEE Ethics Week, to be held 12–20 September 2026. This initiative is funded by the IEEE Innovation Committee.
Aligning design with collective care refocuses requirements for development toward safety, accountability, and the real networks that deliver care. Until the design of digital technologies matches the accessibility and reliability of the paperbased binder system, the binder remains the more ethical coordination tool for communication and continuity in complex home care.
Since many forms of lifestyle monitoring are “untraditional”—that is to say, they are novel, often experimental, and do not track hard quantifiable biomedical parameters—it is perhaps unsurprising that few options exist to defray costs for older adults and their care partners.
Calling something intelligent, even artificially intelligent, ever so subtly implies that it is more than just a thing, more than a tool. And yet, that is precisely what AI is: a tool, a thing.
FDA’s benefit–Risk assessment is an integrated judgment about the meaningfulness of benefit, the acceptability of risk, and the tolerance of uncertainty. But no matter how well clinical evaluations are designed and implemented, some remaining uncertainty about a drug’s benefits and risks is inevitable at the time of a new drug approval decision because of the inherent limitations of clinical trials.
Whereas artificial intelligence and technological innovation continue to be heralded as producing ground-breaking advancements in society, the question of whether they will break free from Western technology’s cultural hegemony remains to be seen.
Opting in to the tech we want and need means being intentional with technology choices and time.
SSIT is proud to announce the launch of the first annual IEEE Ethics Week this September 2026.
The paper submission deadline for the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2026) has been extended to 29th May 2026.
The question is no longer whether children will hear from AI because they already do; the real question is whether what they hear will be framed with care, context, and human intention, or left to the indifferent fluency of an algorithm optimized for prediction, not truth.
The notion that AI, however defined, is a new thing, acting upon us, requesting that we obey its dictates, raises immediate contradictions with the concept of self-governance and human agency, which are the cornerstone of the Enlightenment ideal of humans harnessing rationality and ethics for a common good.
The Chapters Committee, Student Activities Committee, and Young Professionals Committee of the Membership Committee of IEEE SSIT are pleased to announce the projects selected for funding for the year 2026 under the recent Call for Proposals on Technology and Society.
In the American Southwest, and increasingly around the world, extreme heat creates conditions that are not merely uncomfortable but physiologically dangerous, multiplying the already staggering risks of homelessness.
Submit your research to the 2026 IEEE World Forum on Public Safety Technology (WF-PST), where leaders and innovators committed to the future of public safety technology convene to propel innovation.
AI firms have harnessed vast amounts of capital from other technology companies, and they have used it to create a hugely disruptive technology.
The rapid convergence of emerging digital technologies is reshaping the concept and implementation of Smart Cities. This work presents a comprehensive overview of how Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twins (DT), Extended Reality (XR), and the Metaverse collectively enable a new paradigm for urban transformation.
As generative AI reshapes technology, research, and publication practices, the call for ethical leadership is stronger than ever. This September, join the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) for the inaugural IEEE Ethics Week, a global celebration of ethical innovation, integrity, and responsibility in the digital era. Read the President’s Message to explore SSIT’s five-dimensional ethics strategy and learn how you can participate as a volunteer, contributor, or partner in this landmark event.
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