Media Mentions

Boeing, a company that was once known for their stand-up reputation, has now faced many engineering and ethical shortcomings. Skeet discussed the outcomes of some of Boeing's financial decisions and outlined some key questions to ask about ethics in organizations and its effect on investment.

"Companies can be held accountable when they have knowingly cut corners for customer safety. Investors can become better educated about how to spot companies headed for reputational trouble by learning about what using ethics actually looks like inside of corporate America. It’s one way customers and investors can protect themselves from corporate wrongdoing," wrote Skeet.

Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics, published by MarketWatch.

Irina Raicu, director of the Internet ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, argues that chatbot bonding could further erode human relationships.

"It goes to the loneliness that so many people feel, and the way in which so many are not well prepared to deal with conflicts that inevitably arise among people with their own autonomy."

"We might get even worse," she wrote, "if long-term, many of us fulfill our need for meaningful relationships by encounters with entities who have no rights, no interests, no needs of their own."

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by Axios.

Blake Benthall was arrested, convicted, and served his sentence for running Silk Road 2.0, the infamous illegal drug bazaar. Now he hustles for investor money for his two-year-old start-up, Fathom(x), providing businesses and government agencies with software to track and ensure legal compliance with digital currency transactions.

"While felons aren’t barred from working for the federal government, John Pelissero, a government ethics expert at Santa Clara University, said he was surprised that Mr. Benthall wasn’t placed on a “do-not-hire list” as part of his sentencing.

John Pelissero, director, government ethics, quoted by The New York Times.

The San Francisco Standard reports that despite the many success of Dream Keeper program distributions, the program is a bookkeeping nightmare for nonprofits, businesses, and grantees, and Mayor Breed recently intervened to order a freeze on funds for certain organizations that were seen as misusing city money.

Joan Harrington, current fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, said she wasn’t concerned with directors getting a raise but called the creation of LLCs “a red flag.”

“If the city is going to continue giving this kind of money away, it needs to adjust the system through which it makes and supervises the grants,” Harrington said. “It sounds like they didn’t have a good handle of what was happening through the nonprofits.”

Joan Harrington, Ethics Center fellow, quoted by The San Francisco Standard.

The now-iconic photo of GOP Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump is a prime example on how the power of news photography in capturing iconic moments, and why independent news is so important in the wake of the wave of disinformation that surfaced after the attempted assassination of the former President.

Subramaniam Vincent, the director of journalism and media ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics said the portrayal of the moment will play into the political discourse.

“The real ethics of it, I think, comes in, in interpreting where the picture is, what it stands for in the narrative about American culture, politics, guns, violence,” he told VOA.

Subbu Vincent, director of journalism and media ethics, quoted by VOA News.

The American Journal of Transportation reports, that the recent Supreme Court decision overruling Chevron casts a bright light on the role that decisions made at the nation’s capital can have on businesses large and small and predicts that going forward, the nation’s courts will have the power to interpret ambiguous laws that affect the daily operations of commercial enterprises.

“Business owners should get to know the structure of their local government and who is responsible for making what decisions,” said John P. Pelissero, director of government ethics.

“Public officials need to determine what regulations are in the long-term public interest versus what may only satisfy the business community,” said Pelissero. “When speaking up against a proposed zoning change, for example, it’s important to show how it might negatively affect the local community as well as business profits.”

John Pelissero, director, government ethics, quoted by the American Journal of Transportation.

As reported by Fresnoland, campaign finance documents show that Alex Tavlian, the executive editor of the SJV Sun, has financial ties to the officer who filed a complaint about Balderrama’s affair.

Vincent said the very concept of a written legal agreement between a source and journalist is problematic because it compromises the journalist’s independence in serving the public’s interest first.

“It's basically downright unethical,” Vincent said. 

Subbu Vincent, director, media and journalism ethics, quoted by Fresnoland.

As the world looks to Paris for competition and excitement for the upcoming Olympics, cyber security companies are gearing up to fight back. Scott Budman reports.

Ethics Center Director, Internet Ethics, Irina Raicu says lots of security is needed, but so is a way to keep your data safe.

"Once an experiment like this happens with mass surveillance, did the AI tools work as intended? Where they worth the cost? Were they used in the right circumstances and not in the kind of circumstances that people had feared."

Irina Raicu, director, Internet ethics, quoted by NBC Bay Area.