Register for the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Conference

 Registration for the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Conference is now open! See more at https://appeconference.org/

Increasing Trust in Artificial Intelligence: Approaches and Limitations

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September 22, 2021
12:30 PM CDT
Free Webinar

The webinar will explore questions related to trust in AI technology with speakers Jason Borenstein, Hille Haker, and Roberto Zicari.

While artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been transforming our lives and offering valuable applications in a broad spectrum of domains such as business, medicine, and communication, it is difficult, if not impossible, to understand the decision-making processes of this complex technology. To increase trust in AI, criteria like transparency, explainability, privacy, fairness, and accountability have been suggested.

The webinar will explore questions related to trust in AI technology including:

• How much trust to put in machines?
• How can more insight into the decision-making processes be gained?
• What are ways to evaluate and monitor technology?
• How can adequate assessments and regulations be developed?
• Is trust the right concept at all when interacting with AI?

Speakers include:

Jason Borenstein

Jason Borenstein, Ph.D., is the Director of Graduate Research Ethics Programs at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  His appointment is divided between the School of Public Policy and the Office of Graduate Studies. He has directed the Institute's Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Program since 2006 and is part of the leadership team for the Ethics, Technology, and Human Interaction Center (ETHICx).  Dr. Borenstein is a member of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) Board of Directors, Chair of the APPE Research Integrity Scholars and Educators (RISE) Consortium, and a member of the IEEE SSIT Technical Committee on Ethics/Human Values.  His teaching and research interests include robot & artificial intelligence ethics, engineering ethics, research ethics/RCR, and bioethics.  

Hille Haker

Hille Haker, Ph.D., holds the Richard McCormick S.J. Endowed Chair of Catholic Moral Theology at Loyola University Chicago. She served on several Bioethics Committees, including the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission, which issues reports on ethical, legal, and social implications of new technologies and fosters the dialogues between science and society.

Her scholarship in bioethics centers on reproductive medicine, genetic diagnosis and gene editing, methods of bioethics, such as narrative bioethics and feminist ethics, and the history of eugenics, racism, and human dignity and vulnerable agency as a response.

Her recent books are Towards a Critical Political Ethics. Catholic Ethics and Social Challenges (2020), and an edited volume Unaccompanied Migrant Children. Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives (2019, with Molly Greening).

Roberto Zicari

Roberto V. Zicari is an affiliated professor at the Yrkeshögskolan Arcada, Helsinki, Finland, and an adjunct professor at the Seoul National University, South Korea. He is currently leading a team of international experts who defined an assessment process for Trustworthy AI, called Z-Inspection®.

Previously he was Professor of Database and Information Systems (DBIS) at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, where he founded the Frankfurt Big Data Lab.

He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Databases and Big Data. His interests also expand to Ethics and AI, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. He is the editor of the ODBMS.org web portal and of the ODBMS Industry Watch Blog.  He was for several years a visiting professor with the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology within the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley (USA).

Register for Building Inclusive Ethical Cultures in STEM

Workshop Date: April 23-24, 2021

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Workshop Schedule

This two-day workshop seeks to share best practices to effectively engage students and faculty working in research labs and lab-based classrooms in building inclusive ethical cultures. This training moves beyond traditional research ethics training into frameworks and approaches to strengthen the ethical culture in research labs.

The workshop will feature a series of short presentations and panel discussions that showcase best practices and approaches to embedding educational interventions in research labs and lab-based courses. This will be followed by a discussion of effective frameworks for implementing recommendations made by the panelists as well as best practices and potential hurdles in implementing these frameworks. Participants of the workshop will also be guided through the development of personalized plans for implementing some of these educational interventions in their labs, courses or departments.

The workshop is aimed at:

• Young principal investigators/junior faculty who are in the process of building their own research groups;
• Instructors from both four-year and two-year colleges who teach lab-based STEM courses;
• Departmental chairs interested in programmatic approaches to improving mentoring, research ethics education, and the research culture of their department.

Topics covered will include:

• How can meaningful discussions about ethics be effectively integrated into research labs?
• What are approaches and tools to effectively integrate research ethics education?
• How do we build more inclusive research environments?
• How can researchers, junior faculty, and young principal investigators begin to form strategies for building inclusive, ethical lab environments?
• How can we better support and empower graduate students to effectively handle ethical questions that arise in research - especially international students and underrepresented students?

 

This workshop will be held virtually and there will be no charge for participation.
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The workshop is part of the NSF funded project “A Bottom-up Approach to Building a Culture of Responsible Research and Practice in STEM”. The workshop is being organized by Elisabeth Hildt (Illinois Institute of Technology), Kelly Laas (Illinois Institute of Technology), Eric M. Brey (University of Texas at San Antonio), and Christine Miller (Savannah College of Art and Design).

                         

                                          

Call for Proposals: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics 2021Virtual Conference

30th Annual APPE International Conference FEBRUARY 25 - 28, 2021 VIRTUAL EVENT! Call for Proposals The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) seeks proposals for its 30th anniversary virtual annual international conference to be held 25-28 February 2021.   APPE is a multidisciplinary, international organization advancing scholarship, education, and practice in practical and professional ethics. We facilitate and support scholarly and professional collaborations among teachers, scientists, business practitioners, engineers, government officials, researchers, the media, and all professionals concerned with the practical application of ethics and values. We invite individuals from every discipline and profession interested in advancing scholarship, teaching and a general understanding of applied ethics to submit proposals based on their work. Our meeting will have sessions in many discipline areas including business, engineering, government, law, media, and science, and on a wide variety of subject areas such as agricultural ethics, bioethics, business ethics, compliance, education, environmental ethics, media ethics, and technology. Proposals can be on ethical issues within or cutting across disciplines and professions.   SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL HERE Submission Categories We invite proposals in the following categories: 1) Individual presentations; 2) Case studies; 3) Pedagogical demonstrations; 4) Creative arts; 5) Posters; 6) Panel discussions; 7) Author meets critics; 8) Breakfast with an author; 9) Pecha Kucha/Rapid fire session; 10) Graduate student Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition; 11) Paper competitions and awards (see below for more information).  Submissions associated with current events and emerging topics are encouraged.  Submission Deadline: September 18, 2020 Generally, no more than one individual presentation per person will be accepted.  There is no limit to participation in co-authored presentations and panels.      Submission Guidelines and Instructions Special Interest Sections In addition to papers and sessions on topics of general interest in applied and professional ethics, APPE has Special Interest Sections and program tracks in the following areas: Bioethics, Health & Medical Ethics Business Ethics Early Career Scholar Education Ethics Engineering, Science and Technology Ethics (STEM) Law, Government & Military Ethics Media & Journalism Ethics Moral Theory Research Integrity Social & Societal Ethics If you wish your submission to be considered for a particular program track, you may indicate this in your submission form.  Paper Competitions and Awards Best Formal Paper by an Early Career Scholar:   $500 prize Best Formal Paper by a Graduate Student:  $500 prize Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award:  $250 prize Best Formal Paper by an Undergraduate Student:   $250 prize In addition, there is a $250 prize given to the winner of the Graduate Student Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition which takes place and is awarded at the conference. See Submission Guidelines and Instructions for paper competition guidelines and submission instruction. For more information about the 30th Annual APPE International Conference, please see the APPE website at: https://appe-ethics.org.

Join us for a webinar on March 26 - Teaching Engineering Ethics in the Context of ABET Requirements

The 2nd session in the Online Ethics Center Webinar series, “Bringing Ethics Into the Conversation” will feature Dr. Rebecca Bates, Professor and Chair, Department of Integrated Engineering, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Dr. Bates will speak on teaching engineering ethics in the context of ABET requirements. The webinar will be held at 12:00 pm, EST on Marcy 26, 2020.

Register at https://nasem.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ea_sume6Q9eb3stY90igZg

Join us for a webinar on February 25th - "Working Ethics into the Conversation: Professional Responsibility in Engineering"

Topic

Working Ethics into the Conversation: Professional Responsibility in Engineering

Description

For a new Online Ethics Center webinar series, “Working Ethics into the Conversation,” Dr. Rosalyn Berne, Director of the NAE’s Center for Engineering Ethics and Society, will host students, academics, and professionals in conversations about teaching ethics.

The first webinar conversation will be broadcast Feb. 25 at 12pm. Dr. Michael Loui, professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will talk on the subject of "What Is Professional Responsibility in Engineering?" and explain why as professionals engineers have special responsibilities. He will be joined by discussant Dr. Jeff Brown, associate professor of civil engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Audience participation is encouraged.

Time

Feb 25, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

To register, visit: https://nasem.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KmIlPIbtSPC9Fo15Qd7T9w?fbclid=IwAR1AWX7Y56JNQz4bAYTxPYnlaSRXNIC8xBpmd1uTlKEqG-j5DEErJQQIJpg

The Embassay of Good Science

The European Commission has launched an amazing new web site called the Embassy of Good Science that contains an amazing array of materials on research integrity and the responsible conduct of research, as well as offering training opportunities and allowing authors and educators to share their own resources with the scientific community.

They describe their mission as:

The goal of The Embassy of Good Science is to promote research integrity among all those involved in research. The platform is open to anyone willing to learn or support others in fostering understanding and awareness around Good Science.

The Embassy aims to become a unique ‘go to’ place, a public square where the community of researchers can gather to discuss ‘hot topics’, share knowledge, and find guidance and support to perform science responsibly and with integrity.

We want to focus on researchers’ daily practice. Our ambition is to collaboratively map the laws, policies and guidelines informing good practices and highlight relevant cases, experiences, educational materials and good practice examples. We will also support educators to develop training on research integrity and ethics.

  Be sure to check them out!