Framing ethical perspectives
Emerging Technologies are technologies whose development and/or practical applications are still largely unrealized. Carnegie Council’s events, experts, and initiatives focus on the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies and aim to map the field, illuminate topics requiring further research, and build a diverse community of experts, with the goal of ensuring that these systems are developed and deployed in a just, responsible, and inclusive manner.
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APR 9, 2024 • Video
Algorithms of War: The Use of AI in Armed Conflict
From Gaza to Ukraine, the military applications of AI are fundamentally reshaping the ethics of war. How should policymakers navigate AI’s inherent trade-offs?
MAR 27, 2024 • Article
The Specter of EMP Weapons in Space
Visiting Fellow Zhanna Malekos Smith details the danger of electromagnetic pulse weapons. How can nations protect themselves from this catastrophic threat?
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Carnegie Ethics Accelerator
The Carnegie Ethics Accelerator is a new kind of incubator designed to empower ethics in the face of swiftly evolving challenges in technology and public policies.
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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 11, 2019 • Podcast
Censorship in China, with BuzzFeed's Megha Rajagopalan
After working in China for six years on many stories unfavorable to the Chinese government, in 2018 journalist Megha Rajagopalan's visa was not renewed, forcing her ...
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 • Podcast
A U.S.-China Tech Cold War? with Adam Segal
Are we headed for a U.S.-China tech Cold War and what should we do about it? "There's no way we're ever going to ...
FEB 19, 2019 • Podcast
China's Power and Messaging, with Bonnie S. Glaser
"There are areas where China lags behind other countries in its power, areas where it's catching up, and areas where China really has leapfrogged some ...
FEB 13, 2019 • Transcript
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: Can the International Community Agree on an Approach?
"It is not very often that a United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions makes headlines or that his/her report gets ...
FEB 8, 2019 • Podcast
The Crack-Up: The Early Days of Hollywood, with David Bordwell
In this episode of The Crack-Up series, which explores how 1919 shaped the modern world, film historian David Bordwell discusses two big changes in the American ...
JAN 29, 2019 • Podcast
Toward a Human-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity, with Ronald Deibert
Discussions around cybersecurity often focus on the security and sovereignty of states, not individuals, says Professor Ronald Deibert, founder and director of University of Toronto's ...
JAN 17, 2019 • Transcript
1919 & the Crack Up, with Ted Widmer
Created and hosted by Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Ted Widmer, "The Crack-Up" is a special podcast series about the events of 1919, a year that in ...
JAN 17, 2019 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: 1919 & the Modern World, with Ted Widmer
Historian Ted Widmer discusses his new Carnegie Council podcast series "The Crack-Up" and how 1919 has shaped the modern world. He and host Alex Woodson speak ...