On September 16, from 4:30–5:30 p.m. Eastern [9:30–10:30 p.m. London; September 17, 5:30–6:30 a.m. Tokyo; 6:30–7:30 a.m. Sydney], the IEEE Ethics Week Subcommittee on Ethics and Public Policy will hold a webinar anchored by Zachary Pirtle, Deputy Director of Arizona State University’s Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (CSPO) and the philosopher Dana Tulodziecki from the Purdue Policy Research Institute (PPRI). The webinar will address perspectives on how public policy can shape the ethics of engineering and engineered systems in society.

Dr. Pirtle will speak about how recent legislation in the CHIPS and Science Act called for research on ethical, legal, and societal implications as part of developing emerging technologies. These policy objectives raise several questions about how we ensure that engineering research benefits society.

Dr. Tulodziecki will focus on how engineering and science activities aimed at developing biological systems in space are being shaped today by policy guidelines and approaches, and explore what additional policy reflection might be needed.

We’ll be excited to hear perspectives from the audience, and we’ll have an active chat session during the discussion.

The philosopher Michael Gifford from the STS program at Arizona State University will moderate. This event will be hosted by ASU CSPO and the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic campus (STS@Poly).