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).
Read MoreAs 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.”
Read MoreProf. Maggie Little’s Intro to Ethics class discusses systemic racism and moral repair in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
Read MoreAt a panel hosted by New America, Ethics Lab director Prof. Maggie Little discussed the powers and pitfalls of emerging technologies in solving ethical problems.
Read MoreEthics Lab director Prof. Maggie Little speaks to masters students about the ethical use of data in health informatics, and ways to combat existing social inequalities in their work.
Read MoreA team from Ethics Lab presents a workshop on frameworks of care and control at the ninth annual Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD9).
Read MoreIn the second ResponsibleCS session of the semester, students considered the ethical factors arising from their design choices as they learned about sequence diagrams.
Read MoreIn her Religion and Disability class last spring, Professor Julia Watts Belser’s students worked with Ethics Lab to address questions of accessibility in sacred spaces and how they might redesign these spaces to make them more inclusive.
Read MoreFritz Family Fellow, Dr. Mark Hanin, is conducting research on interactions with social robots and analyzing how these relationships might impact humans’ ability to form bonds with other people.
Read MoreProf. Maggie Little’s Intro to Ethics class uses the theory of narrative disruption to reflect on the ethical and moral aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreFor the first ResponsibleCS session of the semester, Ethics Lab worked with Professor Ray Essick to design an exercise examining how ethical dilemmas might materialize at any stage of software development.
Read MoreIn the Data Ethics course taught by Ethics Lab postdoctoral fellow Dr. Marcello Antosh, students are completing a semester-long research project related to the intersection of data ethics and one of three major issues: the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing challenges to democratic institutions, and racial injustice and inequity.
Read MoreProf. Maggie Little’s Intro to Ethics class grapples with ethical questions raised by the COVID-19 pandemic, racial justice movement, and the upcoming November election.
Read MoreNew pilot from Ethics Lab reimagines interdisciplinary education through the lens of Design Justice
Read MoreWith two semesters of Mozilla-sponsored ResponsibleCS ethics engagements under their belts and the first stage of the grant substantially complete, Ethics Lab and the Computer Science Department are continuing to refine and test their approach to infusing ethics into Georgetown’s computer science curriculum.
Read MoreWe’re excited to share a new paper from Ethics Lab and the Administrative Data Research Institute at Georgetown University.
Read MoreWhat happens when a technology designed to secure property is suddenly required to secure the health and well-being of people?
Read MoreDuring the final sessions in Professor Essick’s Advanced Programing course, the Responsible CS Team challenged students to reflect on the ethical considerations at stake in the design and implementation of a contract tracing application that might be part of a broader public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreA happy surprise to come from this quarantine is the discovery that many Ethics Lab methods work well virtually in addition to in person.
Read MoreStudents consider ethical concerns of how human-computer interfaces.
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