An International Network to Consider the Ethical Use of Emerging Technologies

全球技术创新和变革的加速，也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提供使用技术的道德准则。因此，仅仅是技术的发展速度就迫切需要建立伦理准则，作为科学自然进程的一部分。最终，可持续的创新环境将包括科学界和伦理学家之间的伙伴关系文化，允许将发现的好处资本化，同时减轻对社会的责任。这项运动必须在一开始就作为一个团队的努力来推动。因此，该提案的主要目的是组建一个由科学家和伦理学家组成的跨学科团队，以考虑将一组选定的新兴技术应用于学习，教育，康复，医学和增强人类科学的道德使用。 一开始，一个由工程师、认知科学家、心理学家和教育家组成的团队将与在虚拟现实、神经康复、机器人、可穿戴传感器和增强人类伦理学方面具有专业知识的伦理学家一起工作，通过在澳大利亚昆士兰州大学举办的研讨会式论坛，为建立作为科学过程一部分的伦理准则开辟道路。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决策者之间的持续互动创造一个安全的论坛。这项赠款的国际部分是绝对必要的，不仅是为了培养各种学生，他们将接受培训，在未来领导可持续科学，而且也是为了平衡企业作为一个国际问题，值得协调和国际合作在一开始。国际部分和虚拟论坛也确立了这样一个事实，即道德准则和政策需要成为STEM教育的固有组成部分。研究生的教育活动是赠款的每一个目标的固有组成部分，招聘和纳入代表性不足的学生的方案嵌入在该计划中。额外的STEM教育材料，以及向代表性不足的学生更广泛传播的既定途径，将作为高水平科学计划的副产品。这些活动将以一个充分阐明的进程结束，以制定道德准则，作为技术开发的一个组成部分。

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.