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.
8 May 2024: We will be giving a talk on outer space cybersecurity at RSA Conference in San Francisco.
More events here and here.
| The Latest News
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
4 April 2025
Journal of Military Ethics
Recent Insights in Responsible AI Development and Deployment in National Defense: A Review of Literature, 2022–2024
5 March 2025
Harvard Divinty School
The Soul’s Companion: Altered Consciousness, Embodied Practices, and the Power of Rhythm
21 February 2025
Aeon
Chatbots of the Dead
19 February 2025
Via Satellite
Cyber Threat Scenarios: Cubesat Hack
6 February 2025
Dark Reading
US Cybersecurity Efforts for Spacecraft Are Up in the Air
30 October 2024
Via Satellite
Why Space Cybersecurity Needs More Imagination
More news here.
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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
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