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Author: Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab

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Produced by the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab, Tech on Earth brings a practical lens to technology ethics around the world.
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Host Elizabeth Renieris is joined by Dr. Shannon Vallor, the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Futures Institute, where she directs the Centre for Technomoral Futures. She is also a professor in philosophy, and her research explores the philosophy and ethics of emerging science and technologies.Shannon is particularly well known for her work in virtue ethics. In explaining its focus on “the way in which our actio...
Host Elizabeth Renieris is joined by Dr. Amana Raquib, an assistant professor of social sciences and liberal arts at the Institute of Business Administration Karachi in Karachi, Pakistan. Amana’s research interests are in religion, philosophy, and ethics, and her publications include the book Islamic Ethics of Technology: An Objectives’ (Maqāṣid) Approach.Amana explained how the Maqāṣid is a paradigm consisting of several fundamental objectives that early Muslim theologians derived from the I...
Host Elizabeth Renieris is joined by Father Paolo Benanti, Extraordinary Professor of Moral Theology, Bioethics, Neuroethics, and Ethics of Technologies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. A Franciscan of the Third Order Regular, Fr. Benanti is also a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV), through which he is involved with what is known as the Rome Call for AI Ethics.The PAV is the sponsor of the Rome Call for AI Ethics, signed in Rome on February 28, 2020, by the PAV, I...
Host Elizabeth Renieris is joined by the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, founding president and CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The center is a collaborative and nonpartisan think tank focusing on the development of interdisciplinary research and programs in a variety of fields, from science and technology to education and international relations.A Buddhist monk, Venerable Tenzin gave us a primer on Buddhist ethics ...
*Note: This description is also a transcript of the trailer.Hosted by Elizabeth Renieris, founding director of the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab, Tech on Earth is a podcast aimed at bringing a practical lens to tech ethics around the world.When things abruptly shut down in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, technology kept us connected. But as everything from work, school, and time with friends and family moved online for many of us, technology’s promises and pitfalls also grew more ap...
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