Panel discussion: a collective questioning about quantum ethics

Click here to hear a recording (podcast) of the event! Event time: Thursday, September 26, 2024 – 4:00pm to 5:00pm Audience: Faculty, students, staff, researchers, community members, general public. Location: Southern Connecticut State University – Engleman Hall – Room A120 See map Panelists Colleen Bielitz Assoc. VP for Strategic Initiatives & Outreach, SCSU Florian Carle Managing Director, Yale Quantum Institute Matthew Enjalran Professor of Physics, SCSU Rye Howard-Stone Lecturer of Contemporary Issues in Computer Science and Engineering, UConn Sarah M. Roe (moderator) Director, Research Center on Values in Emerging Science and Technology, SCSU The panel will be followed by a reception to continue the conversation. As quantum technology advances rapidly, it is crucial to consider its ethical implications. While quantum applications hold the potential to transform industries, they also pose significant moral challenges. Quantum computers, for instance, could dismantle current encryption methods, jeopardizing data privacy and cybersecurity. Their ability to solve complex problems at unprecedented speeds might create unfair advantages in sectors like finance or defense, further deepening existing inequalities. By addressing these ethical concerns early, we can ensure that quantum technology develops in ways that uphold fairness, privacy, and security for all. Join us for a discussion hosted by the Research Center on Values in Emerging Science and Technology and the Yale Quantum Institute, with co-sponsorship Details
RC-VEST Discussion: Race & Medicine

April 10th 1:10-1:50pm EN C008 Free lunch bring your friends! Discuss and reflect about how race, medicine, and healthcare coverage are connected. A panel of students, staff and faculty will start the conversation! Please email Dr. Roe (roes1@southernct.edu) if you have any questions. Thank you to our panel and all who attended!
RC-VEST Documentary Screening “The Color of Care”

April 3rd 1-2:20pm (pop in any time) EN 121 A&B Free lunch! Bring your friends! Learn about race, medicine, and healthcare coverage in our communities. Contact Dr. Roe (roes1@southernct.edu) if you have any questions.

Building ETHICS ONLINE Course

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Eric Gossett

AUTHOR

Anna Grabowska (Poland) and Prathiba Nagabushan (Australia)

ABSTRACT

This paper presents the experience of two teachers from Australia and Poland in building an online course on “Ethics” using ICT. The aim of the paper is to share the knowledge and skills acquired by these teachers in the areas of content, pedagogy and ICT. Starting with how this project has been conceived and developed after these two teachers met each other in the WCCE 2001, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, the paper unfurls the evolution of an online course on the philosophy of “Ethics” using ICT.

This online Ethics course developed together is intended to serve students in all parts of the world, with increased flexibility regarding time, place and pace of study and creating a highly user-friendly environment that is marked by ready access to information resources in the area of the subject.

This unit is designed to give students the opportunity to

Discover ways of acting that are worthy of choice and of discerning those that are unworthy of choice.
Answer the questions that open up an ethical issue for fruitful discussion, for example, what? Why? How? Who? When? Where? What are the foreseeable effects? What are the viable alternatives?
Learn the ethical implications of traditional beliefs and observances.
Establish a body of information about the ethical issues and the debates surrounding them.
Learn the skills of research, analysis and discussion, appropriate to the study of ethical issues and decision-making.

Objectives of studying about ethics would enable the students to

Exercise greater sensitivity, reflection and method in moral decision-making with regards to personal, professional, societal, national and global issues.
Contrast ethical perspectives on selected issues.
Analyse the contributions of religious beliefs and values to traditional and/or contemporary ethical debates.
Understand the sources and role of authority in ethical debate and
Learn and improve upon the skills of research, analysis and discussion about ethical issues and decision-making.

It should have been stressed that it will be the first course in the subject of Ethics offered for students from Gdansk University of Technology. We think that the course will have a great impact on moral attitude to personal and professional behavior and will influence an ethical approach to decision-making.

ETHICS ONLINE course is now opened for testing and adding comments on a BOARD at the address: http://dec.dec.pg.gda.pl/ethics/