An International Network to Consider the Ethical Use of Emerging Technologies

顺便说一句，全球技术创新和转型的加速导致了一种科学文化，在这种文化中，技术的设计和推出往往没有为其使用提供伦理指导方针。因此，仅仅是技术的步伐就要求迫切需要建立伦理准则，将其作为科学自然进程的一部分。最终，可持续的创新格局将包括科学界和伦理学家之间的伙伴关系文化，允许利用发现的好处，同时减轻对社会的责任。这项运动必须从一开始就作为团队努力来推动。因此，这项建议的一个主要目的是建立一个由科学家和伦理学家组成的跨学科团队，以考虑在伦理上使用一组精选的新兴技术，应用于学习、教育、康复、医学和增强人类的科学。首先，一个由工程师、认知科学家、心理学家和教育工作者组成的团队将通过在澳大利亚昆士兰大学举办的研讨会式的论坛，与在虚拟现实、神经康复、机器人、可穿戴传感器和增强人类的伦理学方面拥有专业知识的伦理学家合作，为建立作为科学过程一部分的伦理指导方针开辟一条道路。将成立一个虚拟组织，以维持这些努力，并为科学家与相关伦理学家和政策制定者之间的持续互动创造一个安全的论坛。这笔赠款的国际部分不仅对于培训将在未来领导可持续科学的各种学生来说是绝对必要的，而且对于从一开始就将这一冒险作为一个值得协调和国际合作的国际问题来平衡也是至关重要的。国际部分和虚拟论坛都确立了这样一个事实，即伦理准则和政策必须成为STEM教育的固有组成部分。研究生的教育活动是补助金每项目标的固有组成部分，招收和纳入人数不足的学生的方案列入了计划。作为高水平科学计划的副产品，将编制额外的STEM教育材料，并建立向代表性不足的学生进行更广泛传播的途径。这些活动将以建立道德准则作为技术发展的一个组成部分的完全明确的进程结束。

The global acceleration in technological innovation and transformation is incidentally leading to a scientific culture in which technology is often designed and launched without providing ethical guidelines for its use. Thus, the mere pace of technology mandates an urgent need for establishing ethical guidelines as part of the natural course of science. Ultimately, a sustainable landscape of innovation will include a culture of partnership between the scientific community and ethicists, allowing capitalization on the benefits of discovery while mitigating the liabilities to society. This movement must be driven as a team effort at the outset. Thus, a primary purpose of this proposal is to formulate a cross-disciplinary team of scientists and ethicists to consider the ethical use of a select set of emerging technologies for application to the science of learning, education, rehabilitation, medicine, and augmented humans. At the outset, a team of engineers, cognitive scientists, psychologists and educators will work alongside ethicists with expertise in the ethics of virtual reality, neurorehabilitation, robotics, wearable sensors, and augmented humans through a workshop-style forum, set at the University of Queensland, Australia, in order to forge a path for establishing ethical guidelines as part of the scientific process. A virtual organization will be formed to sustain these efforts and to create a secure forum for continual interaction between scientists and relevant ethicists and policy makers. The international component of this grant is absolutely essential not only to the training of a diversity of students who will be trained to lead sustainable science in the future, but also to balance the venture as an international problem worthy of coordination and international collaboration at the outset. Both the international component and the virtual forum also establish the fact that ethical guidelines and policy need to be an inherent component of STEM education. Educational activities for graduate students are an inherent component of each goal of the grant and programs for recruitment and inclusion of under-represented students are embedded in the plan. Additional STEM education materials, and established routes for broader dissemination to under-represented students, will be produced as a byproduct of the high level scientific program. The activities will conclude with a fully articulated process for establishing ethical guidelines as an integral part of technology development.