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Welcome to the TechEthos newsletter
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In this edition, the spotlight is on our policy briefs & key messages for the ethical governance of new and emerging technologies
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Welcome, old and new readers! TechEthos is an EU-funded project that brings together a team of ten scientific partners and six science engagement organisations to work together on the ethics of new and emerging technologies. Our overall goal is to produce ethics guidelines that enable the inclusion of ethical and societal values in the earliest phases of technology design and development.
This "ethics by design" approach will not only provide value for researchers and innovators, but also for related stakeholders such as research funding bodies, research ethics committees, and the future users of our three technology families: Climate Engineering, Neurotechnologies and Digital Extended Reality.
In this edition the spotlight is on our new policy briefs with key messages on ethical governance of the above-mentioned technology families. These are the results of the social, ethical, and legal analyses conducted in the TechEthos project.
Read on to learn more about our proposal to enhance ethical frameworks, the TechEthos installation displayed in six countries, and register for our policy event exploring the ethical governance of emerging technologies for the digital and green transition!
Do pass on this newsletter to those who you think would like to join this growing community of ethics-driven, emerging technology enthusiasts.
We thank you for accompanying us in the last sprint of our journey, The TechEthos Team | |
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TechEthos Policy Briefs: Ensuring responsible, just & sustainable development of new & emerging technologies
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Read our latest policy briefs delivering TechEthos' key messages for the ethical governance of Carbon Dioxide Removal, Solar Radiation Modification, Neurotechnologies and Digital Extended Reality research. | |
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Discover how to ensure ethical,
rights-based, and sustainable development of CDR. | | Delve into our recommendations to ensure international collaboration and public engagement in SRM research. | | | |
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Explore our recommendations for the preparation of legislative or policy initiatives related to neurotechnologies. | | Examine the operationalization of values and principles in suggested AI regulation norms. | | | |
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Enhancement of ethical frameworks and outline of detailed ethics framework | Report by Nitika Bhalla & Laurence Brooks (De Montfort University) | The enhanced ethical framework or "TechEthos Anticipatory ethics Matrix" offers a systematic approach to assess and address ethical concerns related to emerging technologies by combining empirical studies from the TechEthos methodology. | | | |
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Suggestions for the revision of existing operational guidelines | Report by De Montfort University & University of Twente |
This report scrutinizes current ethical guidelines for Climate Engineering Technologies, Digital Extended Reality and Neurotechnologies, proposing target improvement based on the technology functions, applications and socio-economic impacts. | | | |
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TechEthos policy event:
Ethics for the Green and Digital Transition | 14 November 2023, Brussels & online
| There is still time to register for our one-day policy event on the ethical governance of emerging technologies for the digital and green transition, co-hosted by the MEP and STOA member, Barbara Thaler.
We look forward to welcoming you! | | | |
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The TechEthos installation displayed across Europe | Article by Giuseppe Loveno Garofalo (Ecsite) |
Six science centres & museums are displaying the TechEthos installation, bringing the concept of "ethics by design" to citizens and fostering reflections on ethical challenges of Climate Engineering and Natural Language Processing. | | | |
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Find below a series of good reads, talks and resources that have inspired us in our work - we think you might find them interesting too. | |
Newspaper
The Guardian - "AI Firms must be held responsible for harm they cause, 'godfathers' of technology say"
Authors and academics share their concern that AI systems threaten social stability and ask the question of liability. | | | Podcast Ethical Risks, Harms, and Alignment of Large Language Models
Listen to our Policy Event keynote speaker, Laura Weidinger from DeepMind, as she shared her take on ethical risks of Large Language Models with The Gradient | | | | |
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Magazine
Horizon Futures Watch - With Big Tech comes Big (Ethical) Responsibility
Read the interview of Eva Buchinger & Wenzel Mehnert from the Austrian Institute of Technology as they share what they learnt from the TechEThos project. | | | Book The Coming Wave - Mustafa Suleyman
In this book, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, introduces "the containment problem": the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies. | | | | |
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9 November | Torino, Italy & online | |
Creare, comunicare e innovare con la realta digitale estesa e l'intelligenza artificiale: interrogativi etici e giuridici | |
Join our partner AIRI for this event in Italian, and explore how augmented virtual reality and generative AI technologies are revolutionising our ability to create new ideas, and to realise and distribute the value they generate. | |
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"In the next two decades, we may expect technology-driven disruptions and in an ideal world, this will become a win-win-win situation for producers, users, and nature on a global scale."
Eva BUCHINGER, TechEthos Project Coordinator, Austrian Institute of Technology | | |
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The information, documentation and figures in this newsletter were produced by the TechEthos project under EC grant agreement 101006249 and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. The European Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein. | | | |
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The TechEthos project is coordinated by AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology. This newsletter is coordinated by Ecsite - European Network of Science Centres and Museums and distributed by Trilateral Research.
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