Responsible Innovation: Ethics, Safety and Technology

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35.00 ساعة تعليمية

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الإنجليزية

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There is no doubt that technological innovation is one of the key elements driving human progress.

However, new technologies also raise ethical questions, have serious implications for society and the environment and pose new risks, often unknown and unknowable before the new technologies reach maturity. They may even lead to radical disruptions. Just think about robots, self-driving vehicles, medical engineering, digitalization of societies or geo-engineering to address climate change.

They are strongly dependent on social acceptance and cannot escape public debates of regulation and ethics. If we want to innovate, we have to do that responsibly. We need to reflect on –and include- our societal values in this process. This course will give you the framework and tools to do so.

The first part of the course focuses on ethical questions and concerns and our responsibilities with respect to new technologies.

The second part deals with (unknown) risks and safety of technologies including a number of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment methods. It also addresses the need for regulation (and challenges) when it comes to emerging technologies.

The last part of the course will introduce you to Value Sensitive Design, which takes into account our societal concerns and values as the starting point for innovation. The methodology – including dealing with value conflicts- will be explained.

Case studies for reflection and discussions during the course include – among others- the coronavirus, nanotechnology, self-driving vehicles, care robots, AI, genomics, energy transition, climate change and geo-engineering and coolants.
Affordable innovations for low-income groups and emerging markets are also covered in the course.

The course is for all students who are looking for a methodical approach to judge and manage innovations and related risks from a broader – societal- perspective. We invite you to bring your own thoughts and experiences and to actively discuss them in the course.

المدربين

Jeroen van den Hoven

Course director is Jeroen van den Hoven, professor of Moral Philosophy at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management). He was the founding Scientific Director of the Centre for Ethics and Technology of the three Technical Universities in the Netherlands. He is editor in Chief of Ethics and Information Technology and has published numerous articles on Ethics and (Information) Technology. Van den Hoven has received several grants from the Dutch Research Council on Responsible innovation. He has been advisor to the Dutch Government and the EU in various roles and has worked together with IT industry. Van den Hoven has chaired the European Commission’s Expert Group on Responsible Innovation, which prepared the document on the basis of which Responsible Innovation has been decided to be a defining aspect of the EU’s Horizon 2020 Program in R&D. He is also the Chair of the Dutch Research Council’s Research Program Responsible Innovation.