Analysis and commentary on applied ethics in many fields by the staff of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Power, Constrained
What does leadership look like, in the context of AI development, if the goal is optimizing for the common good?
Religions can cultivate a powerful counterforce to the anti-immigrant sentiments and mass deportation threats of the Trump Administration by upholding the belief in the sanctity of all life and building accepting communities.
- Anticipating Decisions
The TikTok case is about privacy, recommendation algorithms, and geopolitics.
- Resources and a call to action
The benefits of AI are much touted; the environmental costs should be discussed just as much.
Why did the affordability crisis, misinformation, immigration chaos, and endless wars not split the Black women’s vote? Civic duty and protecting hard-won freedoms.
Undecided voters need to decide. They have an obligation to become informed and an ethical duty to vote as part of the rights they receive as citizens.
- An underdiscussed aspect of AI ethics takes center stage at upcoming conference
An upcoming conference offers insights and challenges related to AI's environmental impact.
At a Sept. 19-20 summit at Georgetown University in Washington, interfaith leaders discussed the importance of democracy and unveiled a new statement about a Christian basis for defending it.
U.S. Journalism leaders offer lessons and moral framing to help political reporters better cover low-income and poor Americans as voters.
Increasingly, people’s identities are wrapped up with their politics, reinforcing the sense that we are part of tribes that cannot find common ground. Ethics can be that common ground.
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