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

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.

29 April 2024: We will be giving a talk on property rights in outer space at For All Moonkind's Institute on Space Law and Ethics.

4 April 2024: We will be co-organizing a workshop on AI ethics in outer space at the Beyond The Cradle conference at MIT.

19 Jan 2024: We will be giving a talk on AI, cybersecurity, and space ethics at USC's Information Sciences Institute in Los Angeles.

Nov 2023: We will be giving a series of talks in Europe on: technology ethics (8 Nov, Prague) and space ethics/security (9 Nov, Geneva; 10 Nov, Prague; 30 Nov, Munich).

26 Sept 2023: We will be giving a talk on technology ethics at CIGI's new Digital Policy Hub.

13-14 July 2023: We will be organizing an expert workshop at Cal Poly on the ethical/social impacts of AI kitchens and robot cooks.

23 May 2023: We will be giving a talk on outer space ethics, incl. security concerns, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA.

10 May 2023: We will be giving a talk on technology ethics for the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Executive Education in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The Latest News

19 September 2024
Al Jazeera
Lebanon Explosions Raise Alarm About Supply Chain Security, Safety of Tech

29 August 2024
The Conversation
Robots Are Coming to the Kitchen—What That Could Mean for Society and Culture

3 July 2024
The Conversation
To Guard Against Cyberattacks in Space, Researchers Ask ‘What If?'

29 June 2024
Cyber Magazine
Cyberattacks in Space? The “Next Frontier” for Cybersecurity

25 June 2024
Via Satellite
10 Takeaways From Cal Poly’s Space Cyberattacks Report

17 June 2024
Government Technology
What Does the Future of Cybersecurity in Space Look Like?

17 June 2024
Dark Reading
Space: The Final Frontier for Cyberattacks

17 June 2024
CSO magazine
A New Fear for CSOs: The Sky is Falling

30 May 2024
Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics—Prague
AI Kitchens & Robot Cooks Workshop: Report and Photos

21 May 2024
RSA Conference
The Art of Possible: RSAC 2024 Insights from Cryptocurrency to Cybersecurity

3 May 2024
Barracuda Networks
Going to RSA 2024? Here’s What to Look For

4 March 2024
MAD Digest
Chefs, Spheres, and The Coming Robot Revolution

26 February 2024
Cal Poly
Cal Poly's Advisor to US National Space Council Recommends First Study on Space Data Ethics

22 November 2023
Wired (Czech Republic)
Patrick Lin: Robots Will Probably Get Their Rights

Fall 2023
Cal Poly Magazine
Predicting Crime

28 August 2023
Northwestern University
Ethical Framework Aims to Reduce Bias in Data-Driven Policing

21 August 2023
The Spoon
I Attended a Workshop on the Impact of AI on The Food World. Here’s What We Discussed

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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