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Ethical and Societal Issues in National Security Applications of Emerging Technologies Herb Lin Study Director Computer Science and Telecommunications Board National Research Council Charge The National Academies will develop a consensus report on the topic of ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to research on, development, and use of democratized and rapidly-changing technologies with potential military application, such as information technologies, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology. This report will articulate a framework for policy makers, institutions, and individual researchers to think about such issues as they relate to these technologies of military relevance and to the extent feasible make recommendations for how each of these groups should approach these considerations in their research activities. A workshop to be held as early as practical in the study would be convened to obtain perspectives and foster discussion on these matters. A final report would be issued within 21 months of the project start providing the National Research Council's findings and recommendations. Funding agency: DARPA, at the request of the director Committee William Ballhaus, Co-Chair, NAE James Moor Retired President and CEO, The Aerospace Corporation Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Dartmouth College Jean-Lou Chameau, Co-Chair, NAE President, California Institute of Technology Jonathan Moreno, IOM Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Bran Ferren Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, Applied Minds Joel Moses, IOM Institute Professor, MIT Marcus Feldman Professor of Biology, Stanford University Kenneth Oye Political Science and Engineering Systems, MIT Baruch Fischhoff University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific Michael Gazzaniga, NAS, IOM, Sage Center for the Study of Mind, UCSB Sarah Sewall Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University Hank Greely Program in Genomics, Ethics, and Society, Stanford Alfred Spector, NAE University VP of Research and Special Initiatives, Google. Michael Imperiale, Professor of Microbiology and John H. Tilelli, Jr. Immunology Retired President and CEO, Cypress International, Inc. University of Michigan Medical School Stephen Ward Robert H. Latiff Center for Journalism Ethics, UW-Madison R. Latiff Associates NRC staff • Computer Science and Telecommunications Board – Herb Lin, Enita Williams • Board on Life Sciences – Jo Husbands • Committee on Science, Technology, and the Law – Ann-Marie Mazza • NAE Center on Engineering Ethics – Rachelle Hollander, Benya Frazier • Board on Global Science and Technology (fellow traveler) – Patricia Wrightson Meetings to date and topics of interest • Military Ethics and Law – Laws of Armed Conflict • Military Futures: – Emerging Contexts for Conflict – Future military missions – Technologies for future military missions • Technology Panels (and ethical discussions) – Information Technology – Cyber warfare – Robotics and automated weapons – Neuroscience – Prosthetics – Synthetic biology • Risk Assessment • Past, Present, Future – Historical examples of ELSI concern (biomedical, engineering, etc) – Emerging Technologies and ELSI – Mechanisms used by government agencies to address ELSI issues .

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