Analysis and commentary on applied ethics in many fields by the staff of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
- Resources and a call to action
The benefits of AI are much touted; the environmental costs should be discussed just as much.
Why did the affordability crisis, misinformation, immigration chaos, and endless wars not split the Black women’s vote? Civic duty and protecting hard-won freedoms.
Undecided voters need to decide. They have an obligation to become informed and an ethical duty to vote as part of the rights they receive as citizens.
- An underdiscussed aspect of AI ethics takes center stage at upcoming conference
An upcoming conference offers insights and challenges related to AI's environmental impact.
U.S. Journalism leaders offer lessons and moral framing to help political reporters better cover low-income and poor Americans as voters.
Increasingly, people’s identities are wrapped up with their politics, reinforcing the sense that we are part of tribes that cannot find common ground. Ethics can be that common ground.
Why it’s the duty of citizens to care about democracy, its purpose, and its potential, even in a divided political culture.
Hannah Arendt's work makes clear the dangerous shortcomings of the approach favored by the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference in their quadrennial document on elections, "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship."
The Kamala Harris-Donald Trump presidential debate missed the voices of America's biggest category of 'swing voters'--low-income and poor people.
The headlines this election cycle have been dominated by unprecedented events, it’s no wonder other important political developments have been drowned out, including the steady drip of artificial intelligence-enhanced attempts to influence voters.
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