About
Based at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group is a non-partisan organization focused on the risk, ethical, and social impact of emerging sciences and technologies.
Events
10 November 2026: Prof. Jennifer Kling (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) will give a talk on pacifism and new technologies that can destroy entire societies, at Cal Poly, Building 38, Room 123. Flyer here.
4-6 May 2026: We will be co-organizing our fourth workshop on AI kitchens and robot cooks at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
27 June 2025: We will be giving a talk related to AI kitchens and robot cooks at the Society for Philosophy and Technology's 2025 conference at the Eindhoven Institute of Technology (Netherlands).
6-7 May 2025: We will be organizing our third workshop on AI kitchens and robot cooks at the Pontifical Academy for Life at the Vatican (Rome).
14 March 2025: Dr. Jacob Oakley will be giving a talk on space cybersecurity at Cal Poly, Advanced Technologies Lab (ATL), 2:00-3:30p.
3 March 2025: We will be giving a talk on space cybersecurity at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
More events here and here.
| The Latest News
11 September 2026
Ergo
Theater of the Departed: A Conceptual Framework for Chatbots of the Dead
1 Sept 2026
Nature
From Trojan Horses to AI-Proof Exams: How Professors Are Tackling Students’ AI Use
27 August 2026
Los Angeles Times
U.N. Warns of ‘Moral Red Line’ on Killer Robots; Experts Say It’s Already Been Crossed
12 June 2026
USC Illumin Magazine
Food of the Future: Robots in Restaurants
11 March 2026
AI & Society
Human–AI Relationships as Designed Relationality: A Sociotechnical Model
24 February 2026
Daily Nous
All Happy Classrooms
14 January 2026
Prindle Post
The Sloppy Hyperreality of Sora
1 January 2026
Wired
AI Labor Is Boring. AI Lust Is Big Business
14 December 2025
The Internet is Crack (podcast)
AI, from War to Wheels
20 November 2025
Huffington Post
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
18 November 2025
Scientific American
Can Digital Ghosts Help Us Heal?
More news here.
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Selected Reports
Outer Space Cyberattacks: Generating Novel Scenarios to Avoid Surprise, funded by the US National Science Foundation
Space Data Ethics: The Next Frontier in Responsible Leadership, for NASA / National Space Council UAG
A Machine Learning Evaluation Framework for Place-based Algorithmic Patrol Management, funded by the US National Science Foundation
Evaluating Metrics for Impact Quantification, funded by Northwestern's CASMI
AI-Assisted Authorship: How to Assign Credit in Synthetic Scholarship
Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Predictive Policing: A Roadmap for Research, funded by the US National Science Foundation
Ethics of Hacking Back: 6 Arguments from Armed Conflict to Zombies, funded by the US National Science Foundation
Autonomous Vehicles, Ethics & Law: Toward an Overlapping Consensus, with New America Foundation
Enhanced Warfighters: Ethics, Risk, and Policy, funded by The Greenwall Foundation
Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers, funded by the US National Science Foundation
Autonomous Military Robotics: Risk, Ethics, and Design, funded by the US Office of Naval Research
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