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Betty Hou '22 and Brian Green's paper, “A Multi-Level Framework for the AI Alignment Problem,” breaks down the ethical issues of artificial intelligence (AI) and the compatibility of AI systems with human values at the individual and familial, organizational, national, and global levels. The paper began as a culmination of Hou's Hackworth Fellowship, which she did under Green's guidance. As the pair refined and edited the paper, Green found the work impressive and worthy of submission to the NeurIPS Machine Learning Safety Workshop, where it later became one of ten papers to be selected for the conference's Best Paper Award.
Learn more about the paper and Hou's journey from Hackworth Fellow to award-winning writer.
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Dr. Joyce Viloria '03 has been a part of the SCU and Ethics Center communities since her undergraduate experience. As a member of the very first Health Care Ethics Internship cohort, Viloria experienced first-hand the benefits of the Ethics Center's internship programs. In her current position as a primary care physician, she has chosen to give back to the Ethics Center community, utilizing her expertise to mentor current students and to serve as a member of the Ethics Center Advisory Board.
Learn more about Viloria, her story, and her many connections to the Ethics Center.
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"We all use ethics every day, whether we know it or not.” - Joyce Viloria
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The Health Care Ethics Internship, led by Director of Bioethics, Dorothée Caminiti, provides students with perspectives on health care to better prepare them to affect ethically sound health care outcomes.
The year-long internship places SCU undergraduates in community-based experiences with various units in local hospitals and other health care facilities, or with ethics departments in pharmaceutical, biotech, and technology companies.
Students meet weekly with Caminiti and 2022-23 Honzel Fellow, senior Mary Francis Garcia. An intern herself from the 2021-22 HCEI cohort, Garcia works in partnership with Caminiti to support the interns in obtaining a deep foundation in ethical thinking related to their future career placement.
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The program includes classroom dialogue and evaluation of ethics cases and also welcomes guest speakers to discuss classic and emerging issues in health care and biotechnology. By interacting with health care professionals, the interns learn first-hand about day-to-day ethical challenges.
The interns engage in research on self-selected topics addressing important ethical matters in health care and contribute articles to be published on the Center's Ethics in Health Care blog throughout the winter and spring quarters.
Learn more about the HCEI program, meet the 2022-23 interns and Honzel Fellow, Mary Francis Garcia, and read the Ethics in Health Care blog.
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Who is part of technology development, who funds that development, and how we put technology to use all influence the outcomes that are possible. To change those outcomes, we must – all of us – shift our relationship to technology, how we use it, build it, fund it, and more. Join the High Tech Law Institute for a book talk with Afua Bruce, co-author of The Tech That Comes Next and leader in equitable design and use of new technologies – in a conversation centered around how to ask big questions and make change from wherever you are today.
Co-hosted by: Tara McGuinness (co-author, Power to the Public, and founder, New Practice Lab), and Colleen Chien (professor, Santa Clara Law, Edison Fellow, US Patent and Trademark Office, and founder, paperprisons.org).
Register for the event here.
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Don Heider spoke with NPR/WOSU Public Media about broadcast journalism and the ethical limits when covering an athletic injury like Damar Hamlin's.
David DeCosse was quoted by TIME Magazine about the dehumanization in Prince Harry's account of his time in Afghanistan.
Axios quoted John Pelissero on the misuse of City's luxury box tickets during the NBA Finals.
David DeCosse spoke with USA Today about citizen responsibility during wartime.
Inside Higher Ed spoke with Don Heider about conflict of interest and the collision of education and profit.
DailyBeast quoted Irina Raicu in a piece about Chat GPT and the dangers of AI-created academic articles.
Brian Green published an article in Springer about the ethical agency of AI developers.
The San Francisco Standard spoke with John Pelissero about the city's allocation of taxpayer money.
NBC Bay Area spoke with Irina Raicu about Elon Musk's Twitter poll about the possibility of him stepping down as the head of the company.
The Fort Worth Report spoke with John Pelissero about the perceptions of nepotism.
Irina Raicu was quoted by Laptop Magazine in a piece about AI photo editors and privacy concerns.
Subbu Vincent published a piece in The Objective on reimagining journalism ethics.
For a full list of Ethics Center staff newsmakers, visit Media Mentions.
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Content and programs offered by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics are made possible, in part, by generous financial support from our community. With your help, we can continue to develop resources that help people see, understand, and work through ethical problems.
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