• The MA program in applied ethics with a concentration in ethics and emerging technologies examines ethical challenges posed by emerging technologies, including nanotechnology, neurotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, and advanced information and communication technology.
  • Not only are these technologies being developed at an unprecedented pace, they also share several unique characteristics, including system complexity, social embeddedness and the potential to converge with one another.
  • Emerging technologies are changing how humans live and work and have the potential to alter the very nature of human existence. Challenges considered by courses in the program include emerging technologies and public policy, ethical responsibilities of professionals engaged in development of emerging technologies, promise and perils of emerging technologies, and whether traditional ethical concepts and processes can and should be applied to emerging technologies.