{"title":"OEC Resources: Using and Submitting Resources","authors":"Kelly Laas, R. Berne, J. Hess, K. Ellison","doi":"10.1109/ethics57328.2023.10155078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ethics57328.2023.10155078","url":null,"abstract":"The mission of the OEC (formerly The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science) is to provide engineers, scientists, faculty, and students with resources for understanding and addressing ethically significant issues that arise in scientific and engineering practice and from the developments of science and engineering; and serve those who promote learning and advance understanding of responsible research and practice in engineering, science, and social sciences. This poster will highlight a) how to use OEC resources for teaching purposes, b) how to submit new ethics resources to the OEC, c) the OEC editorial review process, and d) sample resources for use in classes and other educational activities. It will also remind recipients of NSF ER2 awards of NSF's expectation that they will submit to the OEC. The site is available at https://onlineethics.org.","PeriodicalId":203527,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS)","volume":"153 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131435994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ETHICS-2023 Session C1 - Panel: Careers in technology ethics","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/ethics57328.2023.10155091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ethics57328.2023.10155091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":203527,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133270487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James Messina, Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, S. Matei, Daniel S. Schiff
{"title":"ETHICS-2023 Session B1 - Panel: Perspectives from Liberal Arts on the practical turn in AI Ethics","authors":"James Messina, Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, S. Matei, Daniel S. Schiff","doi":"10.1109/ethics57328.2023.10154920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ethics57328.2023.10154920","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":203527,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116172348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ETHICS-2023 Session C4 - Workshop: STS Postures as a framework for teaching ethics throughout the engineering curriculum","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/ethics57328.2023.10155044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ethics57328.2023.10155044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":203527,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115285790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI Based Real-Time Privacy-Aware Camera Data Processing in Autonomous Vehicles","authors":"Shagun Bera, Kedar V. Khandeparkar","doi":"10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10155024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10155024","url":null,"abstract":"The three V's, namely volume, velocity and variety of sensor data are ubiquitous for decision-making in autonomous self-driving vehicles. The sensor data contain information about living and non-living entities in the neighbourhood of the moving vehicle. While identifying these objects are essential, details such as human faces, vehicle number plates, building names, etc., are not necessary for decision-making. Thus, we consider the following issues related to data collection, 1) the problem of data privacy, and 2) the problem of misuse of data by an adversary having unauthorized access. This paper proposes a method that first locates private objects (non-essential for decision-making) from frames captured by cameras installed on self-driving cars and then augments it with noise and blurring effects to make them unrecognizable. The performance results show that a combination of blurring and noise can hide private data while retaining information essential for the car to drive. Also, as the proposed approach processes within the limits of the interframe capture time, it is feasible for use in real-time. Moreover, results show that the proposed method can defend the adversarial attacks for the reconstruction of image frames from a given augmented frame.","PeriodicalId":203527,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125215009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ETHICS-2023: Welcome messages","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/ethics57328.2023.10155033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ethics57328.2023.10155033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":203527,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125390890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Implications of Technological Disruptions: A Transdisciplinary Cybernetics Science and Occupational Science Perspective","authors":"Pedro H. Albuquerque, Sophie Albuquerque","doi":"10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10154939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10154939","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we argue that the disruptive social implications of skill-replacing technological innovations are determined neither by human characteristics, such as “low skills” or “low cognition,” nor by task characteristics, such as “routine,” as it is typically assumed in the predominant economics and management science literature, but by the cybernetic characteristics of the innovations. We also propose that the negative effects of technological disruptions on human well-being cannot be fully understood without the use of a transdisciplinary approach involving cybernetics science and occupational science, and that it is urgent that policymakers look beyond their narrow effects on productivity and on the labor force, and consider instead the complexity of the interactions between cybernetic technologies and meaningful human occupations. We offer as an example the case of the fast adoption of online food delivery services and of remote work technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ethical implications are derived from the arguments.","PeriodicalId":203527,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116338330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative Study on Faculty Decision-Making in Engineering Education for Sustainable Development","authors":"M. Maya, M. Paretti","doi":"10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10154945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10154945","url":null,"abstract":"Sustainable development (SD) is a critical global issue focused on addressing the needs of the people and planet [1]. While engineers are not solely responsible for achieving a sustainable future, they do play a significant role, as highlighted by professional codes of ethics [2]. Consequently, education for sustainable development is increasingly prevalent across engineering disciplines [3]-[5]. But while journals and conferences report numerous examples of courses that implement SD, how and to what extent these concepts are incorporated varies across engineering disciplines, institutions, and countries. Current research on engineering education for sustainable development (EESD) focuses heavily on curricula and student learning; far less work has examined the faculty who engage in EESD. Given that curricula ultimately depend on faculty, this study explores faculty experiences with EESD by asking, “What factors influence engineering faculty who engage in EESD?” To answer this question, our exploratory study considers faculty in two comparable research-intensive universities, one in the U.S. (LP-US) and one in Denmark (LP-D), to examine faculty choices to incorporate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into engineering courses. Given the exploratory nature of the study, we included participants from any engineering discipline. Our analysis draws on Lattuca and Pollard's (2016) model of faculty decision-making, which defines three sources of influence: 1) external influences, such as national policies, industry demands, and accreditation standards; 2) internal influences, such as practices, culture, and values at the institution and department level; and 3) individual influences, such as personal knowledge, beliefs, and experiences. Using semi-structured interviews with faculty and key informants at each site, along with documents such as university mission statements and course syllabi, this study situates engagement in EESD in a global context to understand how both national and institutional factors impact local practices. The findings suggest that while external, internal, and individual influences are present in each case, the salience of each influence and the interactions between themes differs across sites. For example, at LP-D, faculty decisions on the inclusion of the SDGs are heavily influenced by the national and institutional culture. Due to European and national priorities, institutions receive more funding for research and educational practices that work towards SD, and the SDGs are heavily integrated into engineering education broadly, especially in project-based courses. While individual influences do exist, they are supported and dominated by internal and external ones. In contrast, at LPUS, faculty integration of the SDGs is predominantly influenced by individual values, teaching beliefs, and interests. Initiatives to practice EESD operate at an individual level, with significant variation in practice depending on depart","PeriodicalId":203527,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS)","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127156062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Bermúdez, Rune Nyrup, Sebastian Deterding, Laura Moradbakhti, C. Mougenot, Fangzhou You, R. Calvo
{"title":"What Is a Subliminal Technique? An Ethical Perspective on AI-Driven Influence","authors":"J. Bermúdez, Rune Nyrup, Sebastian Deterding, Laura Moradbakhti, C. Mougenot, Fangzhou You, R. Calvo","doi":"10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10155039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10155039","url":null,"abstract":"Concerns about threats to human autonomy feature prominently in the field of AI ethics. One aspect of this concern relates to the use of AI systems for problematically manipulative influence. In response to this, the European Union's draft AI Act (AIA) includes a prohibition on AI systems deploying subliminal techniques that alter people's behavior in ways that are reasonably likely to cause harm (Article 5(1)(a)). Critics have argued that the term ‘subliminal techniques’ is too narrow to capture the target cases of AI-based manipulation. We propose a definition of ‘subliminal techniques’ that (a) is grounded on a plausible interpretation of the legal text; (b) addresses all or most of the underlying ethical concerns motivating the prohibition; (c) is defensible from a scientific and philosophical perspective; and (d) does not over-reach in ways that impose excessive administrative and regulatory burdens. The definition provides guidance for design teams seeking to pursue responsible and ethically aligned AI innovation.","PeriodicalId":203527,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134287486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ABCs: Differentiating Algorithmic Bias, Automation Bias, and Automation Complacency","authors":"Amanda Potasznik","doi":"10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10155094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10155094","url":null,"abstract":"Algorithmic bias, automation bias, and automation complacency have been identified as culprits of a variety of human-computer interaction missteps, ethical offenses, and societal harms. However, these three terms are often mistaken and conflated. Students and professionals alike may have difficulty differentiating between the terms and fully understanding the impact of such psychological phenomena on their work and research. A review of relevant literature is conducted in order to establish an overview of historical documentation and analysis of the underlying themes; definitions and examples of each concept are then synthesized in order to provide a holistic understanding of the meaning behind this set of terminology.","PeriodicalId":203527,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128634922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}