Where first-rate philosophy meets excellent engineering
Individuals and societies can greatly benefit from the use of data, AI and IT systems that are accountable, explainable, fair, safe, inclusive, and trustworthy. But how can we bridge the gap between abstract ethical discussions on these values and concrete digital innovations?
The TU Delft Digital Ethics Centre believes that it is crucial to translate ethical values in design requirements that can be used by engineers, decision and policy makers and regulators. For two decades TU Delft has pioneered a design approach to ethics of technology and we firmly believe that it is the way to achieve responsible digital technologies both effectively and demonstrably.
As such, we work with engineers and external partners on the central and urgent applications of digital technology and computer science. Those applied projects are supported by research on philosophical and methodological foundations and on epistemic and moral values.
News
04 October 2024
Book Launch with Dr. Adam Henschke
What does the concept of just war mean in intelligence? Also, what is the effect of the use of new and emerging technologies such as face recognition? And what is the impact of (dis)information in information warfare? Dr. Adam Henschke visited TU Delft | Campus The Hague to launch 'Ethics of National Security Intelligence Institutions‘ and 'Cognitive Warfare: Grey Matters In The Ethics Of Information Conflict.'
12 September 2024
Ethical Real-world Experimentation – A collaboration between the Province of South-Holland (PZH) & the TU Delft
Public and private institutions routinely test new digital technologies within society, such as generative AI, predictive policing algorithms, and self-driving cars under real-world conditions. These experimental practices raise questions about research ethics and the moral responsibility of investigators to those people they involve and affect.
05 September 2024
Michael Klenk and Giacomo Marangoni receive ERC Starting Grant
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the ERC Starting Grants for young researchers. This European grant of €1.5 million for a five-year research programme is intended to enable individual scientists to build their own teams and pursue innovative projects. TPM researchers Michael Klenk and Giacomo Marangoni have been awarded the ERC Starting Grant for their groundbreaking research.
Events
Opening Academic Year 2023
Science stories & lectures
Saving the life of medical ethics in the age of AI & big data
Read our work
One of the journals in which members of our team regularly publish their work is Ethics and Information Technology. Prof. dr. Jeroen van den Hoven, the scientific director of the Digital Ethics Centre, is its Editor in Chief.
A core idea that is further explored in our research, is designing for values. See for detailed research on foundations and applications the Handbook of Ethics, Values, and Technological Design , co-edited by prof. Jeroen van den Hoven. A short introduction to Design for Values is forthcoming in 2022, co-authored by Jeroen van den Hoven, Ibo van de Poel and Pieter Vermaas.
