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Nathan, Christopher and Hyams, Keith (2022) Global catastrophic risk and the drivers of scientist attitudes towards policy. Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics, 28 . 50. doi:10.1007/s11948-022-00411-3 ISSN 1353-3452.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-022-00411-3
Abstract
An anthropogenic global catastrophic risk is a human-induced risk that threatens sustained and wide-scale loss of life and damage to civilisation across the globe. In order to understand how new research on governance mechanisms for emerging technologies might assuage such risks, it is important to ask how perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes towards the governance of global catastrophic risk within the research community shape the conduct of potentially risky research. The aim of this study is to deepen our understanding of emerging technology research culture as it relates to global catastrophic risks, and to shed new light on how new research governance mechanisms might be developed. We analyse in-depth interviews with leading AI and biotech researchers both from universities and the private sector. We develop new insights in terms of four salient themes. First, ‘engineering mindset’, which highlights the premium placed by many interviewees on pursuing interesting research about the physical world for its own sake. Second, ‘self-government’, which looks at how self-regulation of technological development currently occurs. Third, ‘pure incentives’, focussing on how career and other incentives shapes research. Fourth, ‘norms and persuasion’, which examines the role of moral considerations in guiding the research choices of scientists. We end by considering the implications of these findings for future research on governance of anthropogenic global catastrophic risk.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor Q Science > Q Science (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Corporate governance, Science -- Moral and ethical aspects, Science -- Social aspects, Scientists -- Professional ethics | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1353-3452 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 28 October 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 28 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 50 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11948-022-00411-3 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 October 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 October 2022 | ||||||
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