The Research Center on Values in Emerging Science and Technology

Thinking about Aldo Leopold: Reﬂections on interdisciplinarity and research questions

Dr. Millstein will discuss her work-in-progress on the views of Aldo Leopold, a 20th-century forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservationist, and professor, best known for his posthumously published book A Sand County Almanac and the inﬂuential idea he called “THE LAND ETHIC.”
Event: Earning Trust through Public Science Writing

Click here for the flier Wednesday, November 13 1-2 p.m. Engleman Hall A 120 Special Guest Dr. Sarah Tinker Perrault (University of California, Davis) describes how science writers can develop readers’ trust by taking on scientist-citizen roles in their writing. She will present three dimensions of trustworthiness — knowledge, integrity, and respect for readers — and demonstrate how each matters if scientists are to serve as trusted advisers on scientiﬁc topics in a public sphere characterized by uncertainty, cultural diversity, and heterogeneous and sometimes conﬂicting sets of values. Following the talk, Dr. Tinker Perrault will host a science-writing workshop for those interested in learning more about how to better communicate with publics about science-related issues. Light refreshments will be served! For further information, please contact Dr. Sarah Roe at RoeS1@SouthernCT.edu.
Event: Rules for Robots: Ethics & Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Katleen Gabriels Thursday, December 5, 3:15 Engleman A120 Abstract: Google’s search engine, Facebook’s News Feed, Amazon’s Echo: many of our everyday technologies contain Artificial Intelligence (AI). Autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners and robot lawn mowers help us at home, robotic surgical systems perform operations, and therapy chatbots such as Woebot are always ready to ‘listen’. We can even delegate moral decision making to Artificial Moral Agents. The combination of robots and AI leads to numerous possibilities, which, in turn, also raise compelling ethical questions. Which decisions do we delegate to machines and which preferably not? And how and from ‘whom’ do self-learning AI systems actually learn? Dr. Katleen Gabriels is a moral philosopher, specialized in computer ethics. She works as an Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. She researches the relations and co-shapings between morality and contemporary technologies. In October, her new book on technology ethics was published; the English version will be published early 2020 (Rules for Robots. Ethics & Artificial Intelligence, VUBPRESS). Contact: Richard Volkman, volkmanr1@southernct.edu

Thinking about Aldo Leopold: Reﬂections on interdisciplinarity and research questions

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Sarah Roe

Dr. Millstein will discuss her work-in-progress on the views of Aldo Leopold, a 20th-century forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservationist, and professor, best known for his posthumously published book A Sand County Almanac and the inﬂuential idea he called “THE LAND ETHIC.”

Event: Earning Trust through Public Science Writing

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Sarah Roe

Click here for the flier Wednesday, November 13 1-2 p.m. Engleman Hall A 120 Special Guest Dr. Sarah Tinker Perrault (University of California, Davis) describes how science writers can develop readers’ trust by taking on scientist-citizen roles in their writing. She will present three dimensions of trustworthiness — knowledge, integrity, and respect for readers — […]

Ethics, Information, and Our “It-from-Bit” Universe

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Sarah Roe

Using information technology, humans have brought about the “Information Revolution,” which is changing the world faster and more profoundly than ever before, and generating an enormous number of ethical “policy vacuums”. How is this possible?

Event: Rules for Robots: Ethics & Artificial Intelligence

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Sarah Roe

Dr. Katleen Gabriels Thursday, December 5, 3:15 Engleman A120 Abstract: Google’s search engine, Facebook’s News Feed, Amazon’s Echo: many of our everyday technologies contain Artificial Intelligence (AI). Autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners and robot lawn mowers help us at home, robotic surgical systems perform operations, and therapy chatbots such as Woebot are always ready to ‘listen’. […]

Science, Values, and Society Minor

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Joshua Connor

The Science, Values and Society minor is best suited for students interested in ideas, concepts and concerns located at the intersection of science and values.

Artificial Intelligence: an astrodynamicits’s perspective

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Joshua Connor

Join us on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at SCSU for a special event with Dr. Alina Mashiku a NASA Aerospace Engineer, discussing Artificial Intelligence.