Testing an idea for a course project, Professor Meg Leta Jones invited participants to imagine how a world of apocalypse might shape communications technologies.
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32 authors and contributors participating in Mozilla’s Responsible Computer Science Challenge share learnings, best practices, and resources for integrating ethics into computing education.
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In the third and final event of the Ethics and AI collaboration between Ethics Lab and the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, participants explored the ethical complexities of AI-driven surveillance technology.
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Students reflect on the second iteration of Ethics Lab’s Design Justice course.
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Ethics Lab Program Assistant and CCT graduate student Meera Kolluri was recently awarded a Fritz Family Fellowship for the upcoming year to study ethical design and surveillance technologies.
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In the second of eight Faculty Fellow “jam sessions,” Professor Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò of Georgetown’s Philosophy Department guided participants through imagining a pedagogical climate crisis simulation game.
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Learn more about Ethics Lab’s Fall ‘21 courses—Introduction to Ethics and Social Media & Democracy.
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With renewed support from Mozilla in the second stage of the grant, the Georgetown team is partnering with faculty at other universities to further develop Ethics Lab’s approach to integrating ethics in Computer Science education.
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Students in Dr. Antosh’s Data Ethics course completed semester-long research projects investigating how U.S. race relations, the COVID-19 pandemic, and divided democracy in the United States intersect with issues of data ethics.
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In the first of eight Faculty Fellow salons, Professor Julia Watts Belser of the Disability Studies program led a gathering to reflect on and reimagine access and convening during the pandemic and beyond.
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Ethics Lab convened Georgetown faculty to reflect on teaching and learning design justice practices in an informal session co-hosted by Denise Shanté Brown.
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Professor Maggie Little reflects on her fall semester Intro to Ethics course, which tackled the COVID-19 pandemic, the racial justice movement, and the November election.
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This spring, the Ethics Lab team will be offering three courses—Introduction to Bioethics; Social Media & Democracy; and Design Justice—which embody the Lab’s mission to prepare students for moral leadership.
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The first cohort of Ethics Lab faculty fellows, including professors from Philosophy, CCT, and Theology & Disability Studies, joins the Ethics Lab team for monthly collaborative “jam sessions” to workshop new ideas.
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If you were required to download a contact-tracing app in order to return to school or work, would you? What questions would you have?
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Professor Maggie Little’s fall Intro to Ethics class considered sources of division in American politics and considered ways to resolve tensions in democracy.
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Ethics Lab Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Mark Hanin presented a workshop on the ethics of machine learning in the Foundations of Machine Learning class at Vanderbilt University.
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Participants from four programs convened for a workshop on the ethics of artificial intelligence in a national security context, the second event of the Ethics in AI collaboration between Ethics Lab and the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET).
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As one student reflected, “I’ve used Wikipedia for at least 10 years, and today was the first time I considered how a user with visual impairment would navigate the website.”
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Prof. Maggie Little’s Intro to Ethics class discusses systemic racism and moral repair in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
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