Ethics

In this episode of The Ethics Experts, Nick welcomes Erica Salmon Byrne, J.D. Erica Salmon Byrne is the CEO for Ethisphere, where she is responsible for ensuring strong growth for the company while maintaining Ethisphere’s founding ethos that good businesses do better. Ms. Salmon Byrne also serves as the Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance; she works with the …

Open this photo in gallery: Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Steve Clark delivers remarks at Queen’s Park in Toronto on August 31, 2023.Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press Ontario Housing Minister Steve Clark resigned Monday after resisting opposition calls to step down over the removal of select lands from the Greenbelt and a scathing report by the Integrity Commissioner that found …

The sun sets next to downtown’s CN Tower, as viewed from Tommy Thompson Park nature preserve in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 26, 2021. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Ontario’s housing minister resigned on Monday, days after an independent report concluded he breached ethics laws over a land deal around Toronto, Canada’s largest city. …

In previous essays, we discussed ethics as a process of reflection and deliberation; an iterative and participatory process in which you look at your project from four different ethical perspectives: consequentialism (pluses and minuses), duty ethics (duties and rights), relational ethics (interactions and power), and virtue ethics (virtues and living together). We will now test drive these perspectives and …

As AI flourishes into GenAI, there emerges the need for some sort of digital Hippocratic oath for the creators of these technologies. While ethics in AI has become a subject of discussion of late, ethicists globally have been exploring the subject for decades, suggesting frameworks to build technology upon. Out of the lot, we have handpicked seven ethical AI frameworks …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A news story out of Australia went viral last week, focused on a mother who will not let her 15-year-old son have a part-time job because she thinks that childhood ought to be carefree and without the burden of work that adults must face.  Predictably, there was no shortage of backlash over …

In the wake of pivotal rulings on abortion, religious liberties, affirmative action and bureaucratic authority, politicians and the press are now demanding a new Supreme Court code of ethics to cast doubt on its rulings. While these demands may not stem from pure motives, we must acknowledge the kernel of truth within them.  A critical insight in Federalist 51 makes …

The circulation of three different video recordings and images of a sexual and nude nature on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has once again shined an uncomfortable spotlight on the Ethics and Integrity Ministry. The ministry has previously moved to insulate the country’s population from the impacts of hardcore pornography by, among others, setting up a Pornography Control Committee. …

CNN  —  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ended a monthslong saga last week by officially disclosing trips paid for by GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. The incident brought to light a key fact: Unlike other federal courts and the executive and legislative branches, the US Supreme Court does not have a formal ethics code. Americans, it turns out, don’t think the …

As regular readers are aware, I am in favor of letting Oregonians know how their tax dollars are spent and I persistently advocate for government transparency. I recently wrote about difficulties several reporters had in piercing the opacity of the Oregon Government Ethics Commission’s activities. Confusion over what was public and what was not resulted in delays in reporting the …