Responsible Engineering, Design & Innovation (REDI)

Which way forward?

With the advent of technology that can learn and change itself, and the integration of vast data sources tracking every detail of human lives, engineering now entails decision-making with complex moral implications and global impact. As part of daily practice, technologists face values-laden tensions concerning privacy, justice, transparency, wellbeing, human rights, and questions that strike at the very nature of what it is to be human.

We recently edited a Special Issue of IEEE Transaction on Technology and Society about “After Covid-19: Crises, Ethics, and Socio-Technical Change”

"Our research works to understand the paths toward a future in which technology benefits all of humankind and the planet. We collaborate with social scientists to develop practical methods and socio-technical solutions to equip engineers and designers with the tools necessary for practicing responsibly through every step of the development process. "

Centre for the Future of Intelligence

We are core members of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, an AI Ethics research centre bringing together world leading AI researchers in technology and the social sciences and based at Imperial College London, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford and University of California, Berkeley.

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Digital Catapult

Rafael Calvo is a member of Digital Catapult's 'Machine intelligence Garage' Ethics Committee, which was created to convene experts in AI and data ethics to 1. oversee the development of principles and tools to facilitate responsible AI in practice, and 2. work closely with startups developing through Digital Catapult’s Machine Intelligence Garage programme.

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UNESCO - The Future of Work

Professor Rafael Calvo is working with an international team of researchers in industrial relations, psychology, history, education and sociology on advising UNESCO in relation to the future of education and work in a world of AI and uncertainty.

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AI, Bias & Disability

New technologies can advance the lives of people with disabilities, but evidence is emerging that some AI may be entrenching bias or even generating new forms of injustice. For the research project "Designing AI to stop disability bias" we have partnered with colleagues at NTU in Singapore to ensure responsible AI in relation to people with disabilities.

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Responsible AI in the workplace

We work on designing technologies in ways that support precisely these factors that fuel motivation, engagement and wellbeing and we have methods for conducting design and research together with the people impacted. Our experience in doing so has made it clear that without addressing this human psychological layer, even the cleverest technology can fail.

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Culturally Appropriate Language Models and Systems (CALMS)

The Imperial team is working together with rural communities across four distinct regions of Peru to co-design responsible technologies that can help improve dementia care. This includes creating a dementia screening tool and an intervention program to support informal carers. The aim is to develop effective, accessible, and culturally sensitive solutions that can address the unique challenges posed by dementia in low- and middle-income countries.

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Responsible Tech Design Library

Find out more about tools and methods for more ethical practice in technology design

Prof. Rafael Calvo

Dr Celine Mougenot

Prof. Sebastian Deterding

Dr Fangzhou You

Laura Moradbakhti

Dr Juan Pablo Bermudez

Marco Da Re

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Porat:2021:10.3390/vaccines9080902,
author = {Porat, T and Burnell, R and Calvo, R and Ford, E and Paudyal, P and Baxter, W and Parush, A},
doi = {10.3390/vaccines9080902},
journal = {Vaccines},
pages = {1--11},
title = {'Vaccine Passports’ may backfire: findings from a cross-sectional study in the UK and Israel on willingness to vaccinate against Covid-19},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9080902},
volume = {9},
year = {2021}
}

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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Domestic “vaccine passports” are being implemented across the world, as a way ofincreasing vaccinated people’s freedom of movement and to encourage vaccination. However, thesevaccine passports may affect people’s vaccination decisions in unintended and undesirable ways.This cross-sectional study investigated whether people’s willingness and motivation to getvaccinated relate to their psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relatedness), and howvaccine passports might affect these needs. Across two countries and 1358 participants we foundthat need frustration – particularly autonomy frustration – was associated with lower willingnessto vaccinate and with a shift from self-determined to external motivation. In Israel (a country withvaccine passports), people reported greater autonomy frustration than in the UK (a country withoutvaccine passports). Our findings suggest that control measures, such as domestic vaccine passportsmay have detrimental effects on people’s autonomy, motivation, and willingness to get vaccinated.Policies should strive to achieve a highly vaccinated population by supporting individuals’autonomous motivation to be vaccinated and using messages of autonomy and relatedness, ratherthan applying pressure and external controls.
AU  - Porat,T
AU  - Burnell,R
AU  - Calvo,R
AU  - Ford,E
AU  - Paudyal,P
AU  - Baxter,W
AU  - Parush,A
DO  - 10.3390/vaccines9080902
EP  - 11
PY  - 2021///
SN  - 2076-393X
SP  - 1
TI  - 'Vaccine Passports’ may backfire: findings from a cross-sectional study in the UK and Israel on willingness to vaccinate against Covid-19
T2  - Vaccines
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9080902
UR  - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/8/902
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/91025
VL  - 9
ER  -

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