Daily Nous, August 2025
“Over the last decade, interest in ethical issues related to computing, especially concerning artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, has skyrocketed.” Why should philosophers—as teachers, as researchers, as members and administrators of philosophy departments—care about this? And what should they do in response to it? The following guest post is by members of the Value Analysis in Design team at Northeastern University—John Basl, Katie Creel, Meica Magnani, Vance Ricks, and Yafeng Wang—and the Embedded EthiCS team at Harvard University—Jeff Behrends and Matt Kopec.
In it, they articulate how philosophers and philosophy departments might leverage a particular curricular approach, embedded ethics in computer science (CS), to help themselves and their programs to flourish while also helping to address important challenges in computing (or other fields).
