Centers at UC Berkeley and the University of Cambridge will train scientists to be aware of the ethical and societal impacts of scientific discoveries and to engage the public in early and intentional ...

With funding from the Charles and Nancy Porter Endowed Fellowship in Ethics and Technology, each student received a $1,500 stipend and their faculty advisor received $1,000 in seed funding.

For many, the coronavirus pandemic made clear how much technology has infiltrated aspects of our work and home lives—from Zoom calls and classes, to ordering groceries online and streaming ...

A humanities degree for a STEM world. This concentration prepares students to write and reason in a world increasingly driven by computers and data, as well as understand the ethical implications of ...

Jenny Reardon, Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center (Nick Gonzales/UC Santa Cruz) Sociology Professor Jenny Reardon, founding director of the ...

No one expects a keyboard, a hammer or a scalpel to have built-in ethical standards that guide its work. Only the users of such tools can chart those paths. But artificial intelligence (AI) — the term ...

This activity was supported by Contract No. HHSP233201400020B/HHSP23337045 with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Greenwall Foundation, Grant No. 15 ...

Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 57, No. 4, Special Issue: Technology in Comparative Literature Studies Guest edited by Ning Wang (2020), pp. 715-727 (13 pages ...

John Ahearne, executive director emeritus of Sigma Xi, was director of the Ethics Program of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, where he was director from 1997 to 1999 and executive director ...

As the world approaches a tipping point in the climate change crisis, many people finally appear to be waking up to the need for radical change, although the Trump administration is still pushing in ...

In April 2019, Santa Clara University was awarded a grant as one of the winners of the Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge, which promotes innovation and experimentation in the integration ...