Future Global Ethical Issues (Excerpt from the State of the Future report)



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941

What ethical guidelines should be put in place in order to monitor the behavior of highly capable computer expert systems?































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948

What security measures to safeguard human interests should be put in place in the independent interface between computer systems/technologies that develop a ‘mind of their own'?































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955

Should the merging of biological systems and technological/electronic systems be allowed?































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957

Are wealthy states ethically bound to invest in global "for good" research?































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594

Is it ethical to engineer a shift of personal ambitions from acquiring quantities of things to quality of life?


































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595

What is the ethical way to gather objective evidence about the influence of religious institutions in perpetuating gender discrimination in society?


































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599

What level of individual privacy, if any, should be protected?


































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616

What is the ethical balance between privacy and the desire of government to tap into our computing stream?


































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655

Is it correct to consider those who have been genetically modified, or ""improved"", equal to the rest of the people? Which should be the limit?


































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656

Is it ethically appropriate to leave behind those people who do not find their way towards manageability, socialization, and development?


































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660

How far should states compromise citizems' right in an effort to prevent illegal or immoral acts?


































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690

Is it ethical to define ""violence"" in stereotypical male terms (e.g. physical abuse) and not also in more stereotypical female terms (e.g. psychological and emotional abuse)?


































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691

To what extent should victims of government action be allowed to sue for compensation (e.g. should Iraqis be allowed to sue the US government and/or its leaders for wrongful invasion)? (Peter Saul)


































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697

Is it ethical to implant language capabilities without also providing adequate and appropriate understanding of relevant cultural mores etc?


































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702

Is it ethical for cities and governments to collaborate to relocate people across regions? (e.g. from burgeoning megacities to mature cities with declining/aging population)


































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715

What moral duty do the rich owe to the poor, is philanthropy enough, and if not what else is needed?


































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727

Is it ethical to foster the integration of people and populations in a high tech world even if they don’t want it?


































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735

What is the ethical way to intervene in a country that is endangering global public goods?


































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737

What are the ethical issues associated with the effects that genomic information may have on members of minority communities?


































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749

What is being done for the loving and sustainable life in ethical terms?


































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750

How would human family values change if all governments allowed homosexual marriages?


































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752

Generally held values support monogamy and family units; should these values be reinforced or reviewed?


































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754

Is it ethical to permit a continuation of a dual class society: one class having the resources and capabilities to profit from science and technology and the other, not.


































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755

Is it ethical to allow poor knowledge to be the basis for discrimination; is knowledge the origin of the new inequality?


































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769

In order to develop Internet and IT technology, is it right to sacrifice individual privacy?


































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771

How can poverty in the south be reduced without increasing dependence, neo-colonialism, and alienation?


































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