Integrated Ethics in Technical Curricula
Assignment material that embeds ethical reasoning inside technical coursework, released for reuse so the marginal cost to a lecturer is close to zero.
Our programmes convene the people who have to make ethical infrastructure real — regulators, engineers, clinicians, educators and civil society — around problems none of them can solve alone. Current and forthcoming work is listed here with its status stated plainly.
Curriculum development and teaching material for schools, universities and professional training bodies.
Assignment material that embeds ethical reasoning inside technical coursework, released for reuse so the marginal cost to a lecturer is close to zero.
Open calls inviting work on a defined problem in parallel, with published methods so results can be compared.
An open call inviting teams anywhere to measure human override of automated decisions using a shared published protocol, so results can be compared rather…
Small instrumented trials of a governance mechanism inside a real institution, with the result published either way.
A controlled trial of whether removing throughput pressure restores meaningful human override in a deployed decision-support system — with the result published either way.
Formal submissions to consultations, committees and standards bodies, published in full.
Five contract clauses — audit access, performance disclosure, override preservation, exit, and change notification — drafted to be inserted directly into public tender documents.
Time-bounded empirical and analytical work producing publications, datasets and methods.
An empirical study of what actually limits enforcement in technology supervision — comparing statutory powers against the staff, skills and time available to exercise…
Turning reversibility from a principle into an assessable procurement criterion, so accepting an irreversible commitment becomes a recorded decision rather than a default.
Long-term commitments with institutions embedding our review methods in their own processes.
Shared technical capacity across supervisory authorities that individually cannot justify the headcount but together comfortably can.
Standing groups convened around a single governance question, with named participants and a date by which they must produce something.
Developing an auditable standard for the review of automated decisions affecting individuals, drafted with the regulators and engineers who would have to apply it.