Marchant Attends World Economic Forum Meeting in Dubai

https://youtu.be/ANzlXLc7RWM The World Economic Forum is hosting the Annual Meeting of its Global Future Councils in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Councils are a network of more than 600 of the world’s leading minds from academia, government, business, and civil society. Participants meet to collaborate on long-term approaches to important global challenges and the impact of emerging […]

Call for Papers: AI, Ethics & Society

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), two of the largest professional associations in the field of artificial intelligence, have announced a new joint conference on AI, Ethics and Society. The first annual conference will be held in New Orleans on Feb. 2-3, 2018. The organizers […]

Diana Bowman on Responsible Research and Innovation in Nanotech

Faculty Fellow and Associate Dean of International Engagement Diana Bowman recently co-authored a paper on responsible research and innovation (RRI) in nanotechnology. Devices of Responsibility: Over a Decade of Responsible Research and Innovation Initiatives for Nanotechnologies, published in Science and Engineering Ethics, discusses and takes stock of the international efforts to guide the responsible development […]

Present at Ten Darwin Talks: Ethical Innovation

Evolve Law is accepting applications for short presentations at the upcoming Ten Darwin Talks: Ethical Innovation event (Nov. 9, 2017). That could be you! Much has been said about new technologies and processes that are necessary to the practice of law, but how do lawyers remain ethical while implementing these solutions? Or is that just […]

LSI Faculty Fellow, Diana Bowman, Co-edits Book on Technology Integration

Available on Amazon “The embedding of any new technologies in society is challenging. The evolving state of the scientific art, often-unquantifiable risks and ill-defined developmental trajectories have the potential to hinder innovation and/or the commercial success of a technology. The are, however, a number of tools that can now be utilized by stakeholders to bridge […]

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Medical research may be in the process of opening a Pandora’s box with Apple‘s innovative assistance.  While most of the world has been obsessed with that other Apple announcement this week (think: watch), the medical community, patients, ethicists, and other interested parties have been weighing in on Apple’s new ResearchKit designed to let medical researchers […]