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The Practice of Ethics in Engineering Research
The course analyses a selection of case studies on selected topics to describe how human agency can respond, prevent or mitigate ethical issues by reframing these as opportunities for innovation. This analysis provides indication on what could be a good pr ...
2024A Value–Led Landscape Design as Model for Ethical Governance
How would a value–led landscape design leverage more equal and sustainable transformations in land governance and use? In light of recent changes in climate, society, and technology, inter and multidisciplinary collaborations as well as knowledge exchange ...
2024Voices from the Frontline: Revealing the AI Practitioners' viewpoint on the European AI Act
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in an ever larger number of industries. Alongside this development, however, abundant works argue that AI-driven systems are lacking in terms of safety, ethics and transparency. As a direct consequence, the ...
2024Researching with values for more ethical decisions
Can social, organisations and disciplinary values guide decisions when thinking about ethical challenges? With this presentation, I describe the ambivalence of decision-making when it comes to being a cause or a valuable resource for acting upon ethics cha ...
2024A multimodal measurement of the impact of deepfakes on the ethical reasoning and affective reactions of students
Touradj Ebrahimi, Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Vivek Ramachandran, Nihat Kotluk
Deepfakes - synthetic videos generated by machine learning models - are becoming increasingly sophisticated. While they have several positive use cases, their potential for harm is also high. Deepfake production involves input from multiple engineers, maki ...
2023Explainability as fig leaf? An exploration of experts’ ethical expectations towards machine learning in psychiatry
The increasing implementation of programs supported by machine learning in medical contexts will affect psychiatry. It is crucial to accompany this development with careful ethical considerations informed by empirical research involving experts from the fi ...
2023The Digital Ethics Canvas: A Guide For Ethical Risk Assessment And Mitigation In The Digital Domain
Patrick Jermann, Cécile Hardebolle, Vivek Ramachandran, Vladimir Macko, Adrian Christian Holzer
Ethical concerns in the digital domain are growing with the extremely fast evolution of technology and the increasing scale at which software is deployed, potentially affecting our societies globally. It is crucial that engineers evaluate more systematical ...
2023Compassion and Engineering Students’ Moral Reasoning: The Emotional Experience of Engineering Ethics Cases
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Background: There has been an increase in interest in emotion in engineering and science ethics education. There is also evidence that emotional content in case studies may improve students’ learning and enhance awareness, understanding, and motivation con ...
2023A Game-Based Approach to Develop Engineering Students’ Awareness About Artificial Intelligence Ethical Challenges
Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Helena Kovacs, Maria Carla Di Vincenzo, Ester Simkova
The past few decades have seen important efforts to introduce more ethics into engineering education programs around the world, while adapting to the evolution of ethical concerns, notably in relation to digital technology and artificial intelligence. Even ...
2022Emotional empathy and engineering students’moral reasoning
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Although engineering education is often characterized as a rational activity, research suggests that emotions are vital for learning at all levels of education. In ethics education, there is evidence that including mild emotional information in case studie ...
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