Toward an Ethical Experiment

Ethical responsibilities toward wildlife.

Toward ethical persuasive agents

As artificial agents are becoming more complex (autonomous, proactive, etc.) and common in our everyday life, the need for an ethical design of such agents is becoming more compelling, especially if the focus is on persuasiveness [Stock et al., to appear] Examples of agents of this kind are already in sight: systems for preventive medicine, edutainment, dynamic advertisement, social action. In ...

The ethical education of ophthalmology residents: an experiment.

PURPOSE To demonstrate the effect of ethics education on a resident's ability to answer questions that relate to moral dilemmas and on the clinical evaluations of residents by faculty. METHODS The curriculum for the ethics education that was used for this study was designed by the author and consisted of 10 lectures of 1.5 hours each. Five residencies were included in the project. One residen...

Toward an Ethical Framework for Web-Based Collective Intelligence

Web-based collective intelligence deserves and intends to become a full discipline with its formal framework, tools, measuring instruments, practical applications, and ethical field. As of yet, little attention has been paid to study the ethical dimension of harvesting the collective intelligence via Web-based collaborative systems. The present study aims to develop an ethical framework for the...

Beyond checklists: toward an ethical-constructive technology assessment

While many technology assessments (TAs) formally conducted by TA organizations in Europe and the USA have examined the implications of new technologies for ‘quantifiable risks’ regarding safety, health or the environment, they have largely ignored the ethical implications of those technologies. Recently, ethicists and philosophers have tried to fill this gap by introducing tools for ethical tec...