Tag: ethics

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.

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

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.

The highly dubious practice of “Fake It Till You Make It” resurfaced recently, as it has periodically throughout high-tech’s history, when it was exposed in scandals involving the diagnostics technology company Theranos and the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

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

Dr. Francesca Rossi presented “AI Ethics: from Principles to Practice” as a SSIT Webinar on 10 July 2025. Click here…  Read More

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.

In my teaching, I gained insight into some of the ethical dilemmas posed by science and technology but also into the dual nature of the typical student’s response to technology—while they held technology in awe, they also had a sense of alienation from it.

The process of advancing AI technology and making AI-generated content attractive to and available to the general public is comparable to that of the printing press and its pivotal influence on newspapers and journalism.

The question at the heart of whether or not engaging with defense research is ethical probably boils down to this: does defense promote peace, or does it promote war?

Access IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society (TTS) Volume 5, Issue 3, 2024 Ethics in the Global Innovation Helix Issue…  Read More

Though it is hard to find accurate figures on how many products introduced every year fail to meet safety and environmental standards—partly because market surveillance proves to be inadequate [6], while the assessment of market readiness is, in many cases, left to producers themselves [7] —the number may be higher than the public expects.

The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) lost one of its leading lights when Stephen H. “Steve” Unger passed away on 4 July 2023, at the age of 92 (https://technologyandsociety.org/ssit-csit-co-founder-stephen-h-unger-dies/).

The IEEE Humanitarian Technologies Board Ad Hoc Committee on SIGHT Best Practices is cooperating with a number of IEEE OUs…  Read More

The IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) 2023 takes place in Swansea University, Wales from 13 – 15…  Read More

We would act wisely if we turn to alternative ways of thinking, other wisdom traditions, and learn from them. Ubuntu philosophy can help to draw attention to social issues, for example, the horrors of colonialism, exclusion, and oppression, and to find ways to promote social justice. Aboriginal wisdom can help to apply diverse ways of knowing, for example, knowledge that is related to place, to kinship, to stories, to patterns—not only knowledge in books. The Indigenous cultures and wisdom of the Americas can teach us how to organize economic and political systems more sustainably and to develop more caring relationships with nature. And Confucian culture and wisdom can help to design and apply technologies in ways that support us as relational and developmental beings.

Access Volume 3 Issue 4 Special Issue: After COVID-19: Crises, Ethics and Socio-Technical ChangeSpecial Issue: After COVID-19: Crises, Ethics and…  Read More

IEEE ETHICS-2023: Ethics in the Global Innovation Helix – Call for Papers – DEADLINE EXTENDED: Poster Abstracts and Full Draft Papers (short length and regular length) due January 13, 2023

In this time of massive growth in the scale and scope of technological innovations, it is more important than ever to look critically at the nature of these innovations and to challenge a naïve, techno-utopian attitude that innovation is synonymous with progress.