Grounded in the university’s Jesuit mission of social justice, the Center for Data, Ethics, and Society focuses on confronting the ethical consequences & controversies of our increasingly data-driven lives and spaces, including unfair algorithmic biases, the unequal impacts of computational decision-making, the privacy threats of ubiquitous surveillance systems, and corporate social responsibility and accountability.
The Center takes up these concerns through an applied and interdisciplinary approach to research, pedagogy, and engagement with both impacted communities and relevant industries. The center is directed by Dr. Michael Zimmer.
The , in partnership with the Center for Data, Ethics, and Society, will host an AI ethics symposium to continue the national dialogue around the ethical concerns of artificial intelligence. We will have two keynote addresses from, former deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as well as , associate professor of information science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Join us Thursday, November 21, 8am - 6pm CST. The symposium is free and open to the public. Full details here.
Dr. Michael Zimmer was recently featured in the Milwaukee Business Journal as one of the ““, which highlighted the work we are doing at the Marquette Center for Data, Ethics, and Society.
The Center for Data, Ethics, and Society recently participated in the Global University Summit for the Rome Call for AI Ethics, held on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. The summit was co-organized by the Pontifical Academy for Life, IBM, and Notre Dame and is hosted by the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab.
We recently were at Meta's office in Dublin, Ireland to host a discussion with internet researchers, platforms, and regulators on Data Collection for Internet Researchers under Data Protection Regimes.
Dr. Zimmer joined President Lovell for a discussion on the impact of artificial intelligence on our lives. Listen to "Deep Dive on AI" on WTMJ radio .
Dr. Zimmer's work with the Center was honored during a "Faculty All-Star" ceremony at a Marquette basketball game in fall 2023.
Nidhi Nellore, a 3rd-year PhD student in Computer Science, recently participated in the ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW) in Minneapolis, MN and Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) annual conference in Philadelphia, PA. She shares her experience here.
