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Welcome to the TechEthos newsletter
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In this edition, the spotlight is on our analysis of international & EU law on new and emerging technologies | |
Welcome, old and new readers! For our 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 we highlight the key findings of our analysis of international and EU law and policy. This study explored relevant laws and policies in relation to our three technology families and identified gaps and legal uncertainties.
Read on to learn more about our human rights impact assessment, get familiar with the key role of our Advisory and Impact Board, and discover materials and resources that we think you may find useful.
Do pass on this newsletter to those who you think would like to join this growing community of ethics-driven, emerging technology enthusiasts. We look forward to the next part of this journey, The TechEthos Team | |
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Exploring emerging technologies through the lens of human rights law
| Article by Ben Howkins and Julie Vinders
| Emerging technologies challenge us to rethink the way in which our fundamental rights as human beings are protected by law. Discover TechEthos' approach to human rights impact assessment.
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Dive deeper with our blogpost series | |
Interested in how developments in Climate Engineering, Neurotechnologies and Digital Extended Reality (XR) might impact human rights? Dive deeper with this blogpost series. | |
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How do our rights as individuals stack up if our environment is affected by climate engineering activities facing climate change? | | How might digital extended reality (XR) affect online safety and the emerging rights to be online and to disconnect? | | How could advanced neurotechnologies applied in the courtroom interfere with the privilege against self-incrimination? | | | |
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Meet our Advisory and Impact Board | The Advisory and Impact Board's help is essential in maximising the quality and the impact of our work. Board members act as TechEthos ambassadors and guarantee that the highest scientific standards are followed throughout the whole project. New members have joined our Board this autumn - a warm welcome! | | | |
A new project has joined our cluster of like-minded EU-projects - a warm welcome to ETAPAS! TechEthos' cluster offers a platform where projects that address ethical and societal challenges of new and emerging technologies can exchange and create synergies together. Have you already read our article where we introduce the TechEthos cluster? | | | |
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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. | |
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AI shifts the boundary between human and non-human Our colleague Alexei Grinbaum, CEA, looks back for Le Monde at the statements of a Google employee claiming chatbot LaMDA was sentient. Article in French. | | | Study
The approaching technological storm
This study by the European Parliament's Think Tank explores the key societal and ethical challenges of digital technologies, and the possible policy options to address them. | | | | |
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Podcast Tech Tonic: Climate tech to save the planet?
Tech Tonic, a Financial Times podcast, is tackling the topic of climate technology in its latest season. Enjoy this deep-dive with engineers and entrepreneurs.
| | | Blogpost Europe's plan to thrive in the Metaverse
Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for the Internal Market, lays out a threefold European way to thrive in the Metaverse: people, technologies and infrastructure. | | | | |
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15 November | Hybrid event: Brussels & online | |
The AI Act - What costs for SMEs? | |
Join this Hybrid Conference to discuss the implications of the AI Act for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Organised by EURACTIV and our cluster member, the EU-funded ETAPAS project.
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"[The Metaverse] must embed European values from the outset. People should feel as safe in the virtual worlds as they do in the real one." Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the Internal Market, European Commission | | |
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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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