Social Sciences & RRI
Social sciences & responsible research and innovation resources.
Data Ethics, AI and Responsible Innovation
This story-driven course will look at real-world controversies and ethical challenges to introduce and critically discuss the social, political, legal and ethical issues surrounding data-driven innovation, including those posed by big data, AI systems, and machine learning systems. We will drill down into case studies, structured around core concerns being raised by society, governments and industry, such as bias, fairness, rights, data re-use, data protection and data privacy, discrimination, transparency and accountability. Throughout the course, we will emphasise the importance of being mindful of the realities and complexities of making ethical decisions in a landscape of competing interests.
Website: https://www.edx.org/course/Data-Ethics-AI-and-Responsible-Innovation
RRI Toolkit
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is a framework to develop an ethically acceptable, socially desirable, and sustainable research. To do so RRI encourages all actors to make research and innovation more diverse and inclusive, open and transparent, anticipative and reflective, as well as responsive and able to adapt to changes.
RRI Tools is a European project aiming to develop a Toolkit on RRI with the participation of all the concerned stakeholders: Researchers, Civil Society, Innovators and the Education community, with a special focus on Policy Makers in order to impact significantly in the future governance of research and innovation.
Website: https://www.rri-tools.eu
Expectations
Nordmann , A and Rip, A (2009) Mind the gap revisited. Nature Nanotechnology 4: 273-274.
Governance
Jasanoff, S. (2007). Technologies of humility. Nature 451, 33: https://www.nature.com/articles/450033a
Guston, G ‘Innovation Policy: Not Just a Jumbo Shrimp’ Nature 454 (21st August 2008): 940-41: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7207/full/454940a.html
Sarewitz, D. R. & Nelson, R. R. (2008) Three rules for technological fixes. Nature 456, 871- 872: https://www.nature.com/articles/456871a
Kaebnick et al. on precaution and gene drives: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6313/710.full
Public Engagement
Joly, P-B & Rip, A (2007) A timely harvest. Nature 450 (8 Nov): 174: https://www.nature.com/articles/450174a
Wickson, F; Delgado, A., and Kjølberg, K. (2010). Who or what is the public? Nature Nanotechnology 5 (11): 757–758
Governance
Rogers, M (1975) ‘The Pandora's Box congress’ Rolling Stone 189 (19 June 1975): 37-40, 42, 74, 77-78, 82: http://web.mit.edu/endy/www/readings/RollingStone(189)37.pdf
Biosecurity
Jefferson, C, Lentzos, F and Marris, C (2014) Synthetic biology and biosecurity: challenging the “myths”. Frontiers in Public Health 2: 1-15