About

Based at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group is a non-partisan organization focused on the risk, ethical, and social impact of emerging sciences and technologies.

Events

27 June 2025: We will be giving a talk related to AI kitchens and robot cooks at the Society for Philosophy and Technology's 2025 conference at the Eindhoven Institute of Technology (Netherlands).

6-7 May 2025: We will be organizing our third workshop on AI kitchens and robot cooks at the Pontifical Academy for Life at the Vatican (Rome).

14 March 2025: Dr. Jacob Oakley will be giving a talk on space cybersecurity at Cal Poly, Advanced Technologies Lab (ATL), 2:00-3:30p.

3 March 2025: We will be giving a talk on space cybersecurity at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.

17 December 2024: We will be giving a talk on space cybersecurity to ISC2, Washington DC.

25 September 2024: We will be giving a talk on AI kitchens and robot cooks at the Food AI Summit, UC Berkeley.

28 August 2024: We will be giving a talk on space cybersecurity at Space ISAC, Colorado Springs.

21 August 2024: We will be giving a talk on AI kitchens at the National Academies of Sciences, Beckman Center at UC Irvine.

23-24 May 2024: We will be organizing our second workshop on AI kitchens and robot cooks at the Czech Academy of Sciences, CETE-P in Prague.

23 May 2024: We will be giving a talk on outer space cybersecurity at the International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles.

More events here and here.

The Latest News

14 January 2026
Prindle Post
The Sloppy Hyperreality of Sora

1 January 2026
Wired
AI Labor Is Boring. AI Lust Is Big Business

14 December 2025
The Internet is Crack (podcast)
AI, from War to Wheels

20 November 2025
Huffington Post
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

18 November 2025
Scientific American
Can Digital Ghosts Help Us Heal?

4 November 2025
New York Post
Inside the Super Steamy World of AI Sex Bots — Here’s What Really Happens When You Get Down with Digital Hotties

23 October 2025
Wired
ChatGPT’s Horny Era Could Be Its Stickiest Yet

10 September 2025
Vanity Fair
Hollywood’s Monkey-Selfie Problem: Who Would Actually Own a Movie Made by AI?

5 September 2025
Prindle Post
Robot Kitchens, AI Cooks, and the Meaning of Food

7 August 2025
Substack
Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits

30 June 2025
Philosophy and Technology
The Risks of AI-Generated, Hyper-Personalized Digital Advertisements

28 April 2025
Cal Poly News
Robots in the Kitchen: Philosophy Faculty Host Vatican Workshop on Emerging Tech

More news here.

Selected Reports

  • Outer Space Cyberattacks: Generating Novel Scenarios to Avoid Surprise, funded by the US National Science Foundation

  • Space Data Ethics: The Next Frontier in Responsible Leadership, for NASA / National Space Council UAG

  • A Machine Learning Evaluation Framework for Place-based Algorithmic Patrol Management, funded by the US National Science Foundation

  • Evaluating Metrics for Impact Quantification, funded by Northwestern's CASMI

  • AI-Assisted Authorship: How to Assign Credit in Synthetic Scholarship

  • Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Predictive Policing: A Roadmap for Research, funded by the US National Science Foundation

  • Ethics of Hacking Back: 6 Arguments from Armed Conflict to Zombies, funded by the US National Science Foundation

  • Autonomous Vehicles, Ethics & Law: Toward an Overlapping Consensus, with New America Foundation

  • Enhanced Warfighters: Ethics, Risk, and Policy, funded by The Greenwall Foundation

  • Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers, funded by the US National Science Foundation

  • Autonomous Military Robotics: Risk, Ethics, and Design, funded by the US Office of Naval Research

    • More publications here.

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