Because of your support – more than 100 individual gifts – we unlocked THREE challenges throughout the day!
Thank you to the generosity of the Markkula Foundation, Ethics Center Advisory Board Chairman Dan Cooperman, Anna Bowman and John Buscher, and Gary Connor, we unlocked an additional $85K towards continuing our vision to empower people and organizations to make better decisions for a more caring world.
Together, with contributions from our faculty and staff, advisory board and ethics councils, SCU alumni, current students, friends, family, and members of our extended community, we raised more than $162K for ethics!
On November 1, 2024 the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Next10 cohosted a daylong conference on AI and sustainability.
By José Roger Flahaux, Brian Patrick Green, and Ann Skeet
"Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap,” or, more briefly, the “ITEC Handbook,” offers organizations a strategic plan to enhance ethical management practices, empowering them to navigate the complex landscape of disruptive technologies such as AI, machine learning, encryption, tracking, and others while upholding strong ethical standards.
The urgent issue, for now, is to avoid distorting our ideas of friendship and human happiness.
Unhoused individuals face a daily struggle to access necessities like food, clothing, and health care. To ensure unhoused people’s access to health care, we must better address the barriers they face.
Dignity as a word has framing power. It can help expand the listening window when discussing societal challenges such as disparities and injustices. Three reading references for you to explore this possibility.
Throughout history, new technologies have disrupted society in different ways–some positively and some negatively–from steam-powered engines and electricity, to the Internet, and now again with artificial intelligence (AI); generative AI in particular in this instance. The creation of art, journalism, education, and the very truth itself have all been tested by the use of ChatGPT and other generative AIs. Markkula Center staff and scholars unpack some of the many related ethical dilemmas in this Ethics Spotlight.
The gun debate has again reached a fever pitch in the shadow of several horrific mass shootings. Ethics Center staff and faculty interrogate the moral and ethical issues associated with gun use and regulation.
The world has been experiencing worsening wildfire conditions for decades, and in California the situation is particularly bad. The Ethics Center staff and other scholars address some of the key ethical issues surrounding these disasters.
Santa Clara University has named Guadalupe Hayes-Mota as the director of the Bioethics Program at the University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
Join us May 2 in person or via livestream for a daylong conference exploring the impact AI is having on human dignity, part of the Markkula Center’s work in the international project New Humanism in the time of Neurosciences and Artificial Intelligence (NHNAI).
The 2024-25 Environmental Ethics Fellows are focusing on the ethical dimensions of the 2023 levee failure in Pajaro, California.
During this thought-provoking event participants identified key themes including the transformative potential of AI, its risks and pitfalls, and the critical question of who sets the rules that will determine its impact on humanity.
This teaching module for business ethics, leadership and management courses includes two videos, homework assignments, and class discussion, all designed to spark conversation about ethical issues associated with whistleblowers and corporate governance.
Our Culture Self-Assessment Practice recommends approaches to evaluating culture for ethics within companies and other types of organizations. The materials are primarily for members of an organization’s leadership team, including human resources and legal, but designed to engage a cross-section of leaders from various disciplines.
Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by NBC Bay Area.
Joan Harrington, fellow, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, quoted by The San Francisco Standard.
John Pelissero, director, government ethics, quoted by Arizona Central.
John Pelissero, director, government ethics, quoted by the San Francisco Standard and the Washington Examiner.