Tag: ethics

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.

For the inaugural IEEE Ethics Week 2026, we present an interview with Dr. Tom Creely, 2026 Ethics Week Chair, exploring the question: “What is ethics?” Is it a set of rules? Compliance? Knowing right from wrong? Or a philosophical framework?

IEEE President Mary Ellen Randall calls upon members worldwide to join IEEE Ethics Week and take an active role in shaping the future of responsible, trusted technology for the benefit of humanity.

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.

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