All About Ethics
Analysis and commentary on applied ethics in many fields by the staff of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
No ethical landlord calls a competitor to agree on rent. With algorithmic pricing, they don’t have to.
Before Addressing "AI Welfare," We Need to Talk More about Human WelfareIn 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.
The recent papal encyclical entered a broadening debate.Resources highlighting various views on AI consciousness
Rethinking the Purpose of the Land AcknowledgmentLand acknowledgement can serve its purpose of revealing truth and initiating healing when the meaning of land, from an Indigenous perspective, is clear.
Everyday men and women put their lives on the line to protect the freedom we often take for granted. Yet when their service ends, they can return home with moral injury, the unseen psychological and spiritual burdens they are left to carry alone in silence.
Register and Join Us for a Series of Four WebinarsUpcoming webinars will address four themes from the recent encyclical: AI and education, AI and labor, AI and consciousness, and disarming AI.
A new report zooms in on complexity in California.When information scarcity and water scarcity meet, oversimplifications are likely to lead to worse outcomes for both opponents and proponents of data center development.
Rebranded as “prediction markets”—platforms where people trade on the likelihood of future events—this form of betting has moved beyond sports into elections, climate disasters, and geopolitical conflicts.
The goal is to ensure that as AI accelerates the machine of drug development, we have deliberate mechanisms for human accountability.
