What’s New at Ethics Lab
Learn more about Ethics Lab’s Fall ‘24 courses—Intro to Environmental Ethics (a foundational course in the newly launched JESP degree), Ethics of AI & Health, Ethical Challenges of AI, and Intro to Tech, Ethics, & Society (in partnership with TES).
Learn more about Ethics Lab’s Spring ‘24 courses—Ethics of AI & Health, Environmental Ethics, Data Ethics, (un)Mapping Just Futures, and Introduction to Tech, Ethics, & Society (in partnership with TES).
Learn more about Ethics Lab’s Fall ‘23 courses—Ethics of AI & Health; Ethics & the Environment; Ethical Challenges of AI; Social Media & Democracy; and (un)Mapping Just Futures.
Open Call for Applications to Ethics Lab Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy for AI & Health initiatives starting AY23-24
Learn more about Ethics Lab’s Spring ‘23 courses—Bioethics; Data Ethics; Ethical Challenges of AI; and Social Media & Democracy.
Ethics Lab is currently seeking applicants for its spring semester cohort of Student Fellows to further the work of innovative ethics at the intersection of technology and the environment.
Hear from Shannon Brick & Kate Wojtkiewicz on what drew them each to Ethics Lab and what they’re excited about in the year ahead.
Ethics Lab seeks candidates with an outstanding record of creative practice, including experience at the intersection of design, technology, ethics, and social impact in a professional, educational, or community leadership role.
The FOIA for Digital Platforms Fellows will support research on, events for, and promotion of a freedom of information law for the private sector.
Learn more about Ethics Lab’s Fall ‘22 courses—Data Ethics; Ethical Challenges of AI; Design Justice & Technology; and Drawing Sociotechnical Systems.
Postdoctoral Fellow Alicia Patterson shares an early embedded ethics exercise on objectivity.
Joel de Lara discusses current projects and his Data Ethics course in this informal interview.
Developed as part of the Mozilla Responsible CS Challenge, this exercise aims to dispel the myth of the universal user and increase students’ awareness of accessibility challenges (and opportunities!) in human-computer interactions.
Seeking to apply Adventure Education Theory to her professional and academic work, exhibition and experience designer Clare Brown hosted a salon on collaboration and learning.
Ethics Lab seeks philosophers for 1–3 postdoctoral fellowships and an assistant professorship.
Ethics Lab Fellow Professor Lisa Singh worked with the Ethics Lab team to design and facilitate an exercise for undergraduate and graduate students in Singh’s Introduction to Data Science and Data Analytics courses.
For their second “Bad Idea Lounge,” the Ethics Lab Student Fellows discussed direction, preparation, and classroom ideas for the Tech, Ethics, and Society major and minor that Georgetown is launching in the fall of 2022.
Students in Jason Farr’s Social Media & Democracy course grapple with the complexities of designing for civil disagreement.
Jason Farr discusses current work on ethics of social media research and design in this informal interview.
Attempting to tackle the task of land acknowledgement for Georgetown, Professor Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner facilitated a salon exploring ideas for an ethical process.
Julie Sayo joins Ethics Lab as an Assistant Research Professor in Design & Creative Pedagogy.