Voting for Ethics: A Guide for U.S. Voters
“Voting for Ethics” is a non-partisan, how-to guide for U.S. voters. It will help you identify the hallmarks of an ethical candidate and make a more informed decision -- whether for your local school board or a national election.
Recordings from 4 Webinars about AI and "Magnifica Humanitas," the Encyclical from Pope Leo XIV
The webinars focus on four distinct topics: AI and education, AI and labor, AI and consciousness, and disarming AI.
Teaching Note: Interview of Theranos Whistleblower, Tyler Shultz
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.
The Intersection of Data Center Development, Water Availability, and Environmental Justice In California
A new report by Next 10, led by researchers Iris Stewart-Frey and Irina Raicu at Santa Clara University, finds that data centers are expanding into water-stressed, vulnerable communities across California.
California has the opportunity to align data center growth with its climate, water, and environmental justice goals — but it requires stronger transparency and integrated planning.
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All About Ethics: Perspectives From Across the Center
In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV highlighted the "silent work of millions of people engaged in essential yet largely unseen activities"
The Markkula Center argues that prediction markets fail ethical and policy standards because making bets on active wildfires undermines public safety, creates insider trading concerns, and reduces community wellbeing to mere financial speculation.
Resources highlighting various views on AI consciousness
AI Ethics Literacy
A list of AI ethics issues and relevant materials (articles and video recordings) from the Center’s website.
Featured Ethics Spotlights
The growth of prediction markets begs the question, is it wrong to benefit from someone else’s misfortune? Ethics Center staff and faculty interrogate the moral and ethical issues associated with prediction markets.
This Ethics Spotlight explores 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).
This Ethics Spotlight explores the ethical dimensions of immigration enforcement and detention in the United States—particularly the role of ICE under the current administration.
Center News
The Markkula Center argues that prediction markets fail ethical and policy standards because making bets on active wildfires undermines public safety, creates insider trading concerns, and reduces community wellbeing to mere financial speculation.
A warm send off to the Ethics Center Class of 2026 and awarding this year's Markkula Prize for outstanding commitment to ethics.
The report suggests ways to make the planning and deployment of data centers in the state both more sustainable and more equitable.
2025-26 Hackworth Fellow Annie Schloss ’27, and Rebecca An ’27, a 2025-26 Health Care Ethics Intern, Earn National Research Awards
Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap
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.
Evaluating Culture for Ethics
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.
Media Commentary
Brian Green, director, technology ethics, quoted by OSV News.
Subbu Vincent, director, journalism and media ethics, quoted by NBC Bay Area.
Ann Skeet, Ethics Center interim executive director, quoted by NBC Bay Area.
Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, S.J., dean of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, and Brian Patrick Green, director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, published by Religion News Service.