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New Article by Woojin Lim

April 17, 2024

Undergraduate Fellow Woojin Lim has co-authored an article on AI ethics with former fellow Professor Allison Stanger in the Annual Review of Political Science. The article, titled "Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective," discusses the challenges of governing generative AI, the diversity in state approaches to AI governance, and advocates for a dual-track interactive strategy to address AI's unintended consequences, emphasizing the importance of pluralist efforts for democratic sustainability. You can find Lim's article...

Katherine Peeler testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee

April 10, 2024

Center Fellow Katherine Peeler will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 16, 2024 regarding her report on the use of solitary confinement in ICE detention titled ""Endless Nightmare”: Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention." The public hearing is available to view...

Director Beerbohm is to lead the Open Inquiry and Constructive Dialogue Working Group

April 9, 2024

Interim President Alan M. Garber and Interim Provost John F. Manning have announced a pair of University-wide working groups to address aspects of campus climate that are critical to the success of Harvard’s mission of teaching, learning, and research.

Center Director Eric Beerbohm will lead the Open Inquiry and Constructive Dialogue Working Group. This working group will examine how to foster engagement across differing viewpoints as we teach, learn, and interact more broadly with one another throughout the University. The Institutional Voice Working Group, led by Noah...

Business AI Ethics Team Hiring Research Assistants

April 5, 2024

The Edmond & Lily Safra Center's Business AI Ethics group is seeking two current Harvard students (part time) for the 2024-2025 academic year for the following positions:

Research Assistant. In furtherance of our Business AI Ethics initiative, we are seeking a student-researcher. While we are flexible with the background and experiences of the researcher, it would be helpful if the student had some exposure to the philosophical underpinnings of ethics theory, along with some experience in the business world....

New book by Katherine Peeler

April 5, 2024

Center Fellow, Katherine Peeler, has recently published a book, co-edited by Richard M. Ratzan. Voices from the Front Lines: The Pandemic and the Humanities is a collection of 45 voices representing frontline healthcare workers (broadly defined) and medical humanities experts wrestling with moral, ethical, historical, and systems questions that arose as they experienced the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Read more about New book by Katherine Peeler

Statement on Lowell House Event

March 18, 2024

Late this afternoon, we learned of the “Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and Religious Literacy” event to be hosted at Lowell House on March 21. This topic is an important one to address, but the event itself was finalized and announced without our Center’s review and approval. The composition of the event is not in keeping with the principles of civil disagreement we uphold at the Center, which demand representation from multiple perspectives, particularly on contentious issues of the moment. We have made clear that we cannot co-sponsor or support this event as it currently stands.

Ethics Monday with Shira Hoffer featured in the Harvard Gazette

March 7, 2024

The Gazette published an article featuring ELSCE's Ethics Monday event with Shira Hoffer titled "Disagreeing Curiously About Israel/Palestine and Beyond." Hoffer created the Hotline for Israel/Palestine, a text-based platform offering nonpartisan information on the Israel-Hamas conflict. During the event, Hoffer spoke of her inspiration for the project and her belief that the world will be a better place when we learn to “disagree curiously.” Read the Gazette's article about the event...

New article in WBUR’s Cognoscent

March 7, 2024

Edmond & Lily Safra Center fellow, Katherine Peeler, has published a commentary with several Harvard Medical Students in WBUR’s Cognoscent. The article discusses the alarming use of solitary confinement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the United States, shedding light on the conditions faced by immigrants already within U.S. borders. Read "ICE's wanton use of solitary confinement defies even its own standards" here....

Embedded EthiCS @ Harvard Launches Exploratory Study

February 26, 2024

Embedded EthiCS @ Harvard has launched a survey study to better understand tech ethics education across Harvard SEAS.

The study will be ongoing over the duration of the Spring 2024 semester, with SEAS students receiving the opportunity to complete the series of two surveys at varying times based on their course enrollment. Results of the study will help to both inform and refine Harvard’s approach to tech ethics education, as well as the approaches of institutions implementing their own similar programs.

Anyone with questions should...

Recording Available for Democratizing Work: Politics, Philosophy, and Practice Event

February 13, 2024

This panel event featured Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen) and Alex Gourevitch (Brown University) in conversation to discuss recent scholarship on work and its relations to property rights, economic independence, and the state. It was co-sponsored by the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School and the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

The panel event was part of "Recent Work on the Philosophy and Politics of Work," a day-long workshop co-convened by Nien-hê Hsieh (Harvard Business School) and Nicholas...