Annual List of Emerging

Ethical Dilemmas and Policy

Issues in Science and
Technology
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 John J. Reilly Center for Science,
Technology, and Values

• at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA) released annual list of emerging ethical dilemmas
and policy issues in science and technology. 
• Reilly Center was established in 1985
• the center generates its annual list with the help of Reilly fellows, other Notre Dame experts and
friends of the center. 
• provide links to articles, interviews, and other press coverage related to the list
• its goal is to promote the advancement of science and technology for the common good and
demonstrate the integral role of the humanities in science and technology.
• the center aims to present items for scientists, policymakers, journalists, teachers, students
and the public to consider in the coming months and years as new technologies develop.
• the annual list is designed to get people thinking about the ethics of potentially controversial
technology
 Jessica Baron

• director for media and engagement for the History of

Science Society and
• outreach coordinator for the Reilly Center for Science,
Technology, and Values, both at the University of Notre
Dame in Indiana
• a writer and Science and Tech Ethics Consultant
• created the top10 List of Ethical Dilemmas and Policy
Issues in Science and Technology
• hope is that it will help encourage public dialog about
the use and risks of emerging technologies
• “the only thing a citizen can do is keep asking who
created the system, product, machine or app and how
dangerous it can be, in addition to what they can do to
protect us from its possible risks.”
 • Personalized genetic tests/personalized
medicine
• Hacking into medical devices
• Driverless Zipcars
• 3-D printing

2013
• Adaptation to climate change
• Low-quality and counterfeit
pharmaceuticals
• Autonomous systems
• Human-animal hybrids (chimeras)
• Ensuring access to wireless and spectrum
• Data collection and privacy
• Human enhancements
2014

Do-it-yourself
Predictive policing Data chip implants Sexbots
cyborgs

Property rights in
Virtual currency Neuroenhancement Geoengineering
space

Automated law Human-machine

enforcement interfaces
2015
• Real-time satellite surveillance video
• Astronaut bioethics (of colonizing Mars)
• Wearable technology
• State-sponsored hacktivism and “soft war”
• Enhanced pathogens
• Non-lethal weapons
• Robot swarms
• Artificial life forms
• Resilient social-ecological systems
• Brain-to-brain interfaces
 Rapid whole
Talking
CRISPR/Cas9 genome
Barbie
diagnosis

Digital labor Head Disappearing

rights transplants drones

2016 Artificial
Bone
Lethal cyber
conduction
wombs weapons
for marketing

Exoskeletons
for the
elderly
 NeuV's "emotion engine"

Swarm warfare

Reanimating cryonics

Edublocks

2017
Brain hacking

The self-healing body

Medical ghost management

Predicting criminality

Automated politics

The robot cloud

 Emotion-
The Robot The
Helix Sensing Facial Ransomware
Priest Textalyzer
Recognition

The Rise of
Social Credit Sentencing The Citizen
Google Clips Robot
System Software App
Friendship

2018
2019

DIY Behavioral
Pet cloning 5G
neurohacking biometrics

The
Sidewalk Autonomous
datafication Insect Allies
Labs translation
of children

The “sarco”
Seeding trials suicide
machine
2020

The AI and The HARPA

Predatory
pseudoscience Gamification SAFEHOME
Journals
of skincare in Hiring Proposal

Class Dojo and Student

Project
Classroom Grinch Bots Tracking
Nightingale
Surveillance software

The
Corruption of Deep fakes
tech Ethics