The Center for Ethics is committed to providing outstanding ethics programming, healthcare ethics education and community outreach. The Center touches more community organizations for its size than any other unit at Emory. Our faculty provide expert guidance at the local, national, and international levels. Their recent achievements include guiding Emory’s COVID triage policies and serving as the ethics advisor to the CDC’s Advisory Council for Immunization Practices. We foster public discussion and experiential learning through community engagement activities and outreach. Your gift to the Friends of the Center for Ethics supports the continuation and expansion of our signature programs, both at Emory and greater Atlanta.
Health, Science, and Ethics Program: As we’ve seen throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the study of social and ethical challenges facing medicine and life sciences is continually evolving. We have a long-term and broad impact in exploring ethical issues in science, healthcare systems, and clinical care. From writing the medical ethics curriculum and teaching in the Emory School of Medicine to scholarship and research in clinical ethics, public health ethics, health policy, the health sciences are a key commitment of the Center. Your support will fund scholarships, allow conference attendance for students, and keep our graduates leading the way.
Advancing Humanity with Ethical AI: The remarkable advances in artificial intelligence (AI) promise unprecedented advantages—in commerce, medicine, and our everyday lives. However, the development of AI also is fraught with challenges. A particular area of interest for our director, Dr. Paul Root Wolpe, is what he calls Deep Ethics. AI platforms can be deeply biased, misguided, or lack transparency. As they have increasing control over our lives, AI itself will begin making moral decisions with real impact on our lives; we are entering the age of Moral Machines. It is important that we develop ethical guidelines to shape AI as we integrate it into our lives. The Center for Ethics is on the frontline, ensuring that we pursue AI in ways that promote human flourishing, manages ambiguity, and employs ethical decision-making and eliminates bias.
Friends of the Center for Ethics: This is our unrestricted fund to support the Center. The flexibility these dollars represent, allows us to fund the most immediate needs of the Center including faculty research, projects and programs not covered in any other specific fund.