Framing ethical perspectives
Applied ethics refers to the practical applications of the moral principles that govern behavior. Carnegie Council focuses on this field, mostly through the realm of international affairs, by identifying and addressing the most critical ethical issues of today and tomorrow. Our initiatives, content, and experts analyze the way that governments, institutions, and individuals interact and make choices on global issues, such as climate change, emerging technology, and governance.
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MAY 10, 2022 • Podcast
Making Decisions When Values Conflict or Are Prioritized Differently, with Paul Root Wolpe
JUL 5, 2023 • Article
A Framework for the International Governance of AI
Carnegie Council, in collaboration with IEEE, proposes a five-part AI governance framework to enable the constructive use of AI.
APR 12, 2022 • Podcast
Surveillance Tech's Infinite Loop of Harms, with Chris Gilliard
In this discussion with Senior Fellow Arthur Holland Michel, Chris Gilliard explains why the arc of surveillance technology and novel AI bends toward failures that ...
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APR 1, 2019 • Article
Democratic Decline?
We are familiar with one type of democratic decline: the loss of faith by voters in institutions and politicians, the breakdown in trust in expertise ...
MAR 28, 2019 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: Liberal Democracy, Empathy, & AI, with Alexander Görlach
In this wide-ranging talk, Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Alexander Görlach discusses the importance of empathy in liberal democracies, the shocking Uyghur detention in China, ...
MAR 25, 2019 • Podcast
Political Leadership: Beyond Gender
To celebrate the record number of women elected into Congress, the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN, and ...
MAR 21, 2019 • Article
On World Water Day: Think Globally, Act Ethically
"On this World Water Day (March 22) we urgently need a campaign to disrupt global complacency about protecting the planet's water. We adults, who are in ...
MAR 12, 2019 • Article
Democracy: Freedom with a Caveat
"As a kid living in Silicon Valley whose whole life has been in the shadow of historic advancement, I hope these will not be the ...
MAR 12, 2019 • Article
Why Democracy is the Best We've Got
"In the face of the global decline of rule of law, freedom of the press, equal representation, separation of powers and freedom of speech, democracy ...
MAR 7, 2019 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: AI Governance & Ethics, with Wendell Wallach
Wendell Wallach, consultant, ethicist, and scholar at the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, discusses some of the current issues in artificial intelligence (AI), including his ...
MAR 4, 2019 • Video
Ethics in Business: In Their Own Words, with AlipayHK's Jennifer Tan
Jennifer Tan, CEO of AlipayHK, discusses the role of ethics in her work leading the company behind a mobile payment platform for Hong Kong. She ...
FEB 26, 2019 • Podcast
The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War, with Scott A. Silverstone
Does preventive war really work? "In the vast majority of cases historically, what we see is the country that thought it was saving itself from ...
FEB 20, 2019 • Article
Jingjing Zhang: Greening China's Globalization
Born in China, environmental lawyer Jingjing Zhang is working to hold China accountable for the negative impacts of its overseas investment and construction projects, the ...