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Responsible research requires that the ethical and societal impacts of computing research and the technologies the research enables be first-order concerns of the computing research community. To ensure that computing research addresses these impacts and concerns and supports human flourishing, thriving societies, and a healthy planet, computing researchers must consult and collaborate with scholars and researchers in the humanities and social and behavioral sciences, particularly but not only those who study moral reasoning or the empirical analysis of sociotechnical systems or who can help cultivate moral imagination about alternative outcomes.
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A well-known design principle in com puting illuminates the importance of considering ethical and societal impact issues in research: it is much easier to design a technology correctly from the start than it is to fix it later. To identify and explore potential sources of ethical challenges and societal con cerns associated with computing research, the study committee heard from experts at the intersection of computing and the domains of health care, work and labor, civil and criminal justice, and governance.
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The report's recommendations are collectively aimed at all actors in the computing research ecosystem, including researchers; organizations that sponsor and carry out research in academia, industry, and government; scientific societies; and scholarly publishers. They define practices to help foster responsible computing research, including identification and mitigation of potential harms as well as promotion of research providing ethical and societal benefits.
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The computing research community should ini tiate projects that foster responsible computing research, including research that leads to societal benefits and ethical societal impact and research that helps avoid or mitigate negative outcomes and harms. Both research sponsors and research institutions should encourage and support the pursuit of such projects.
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Computing researchers should seek out such advice. To buttress responsible computing research efforts, research institutions, scientific societies, and research sponsors should develop ways for computing researchers to identify scholars with the ethical, societal impact, and domain expertise their projects require and provide support for such scholars to collaborate in the research.
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Specific opportunities for such engagement include informing the public, assisting public- and private-sector acquirers of computing technologies, and bringing potential adverse consequences of emerging technologies to the attention of governments and other public organizations. In addition, universities, research sponsors, and scientific so cieties should create opportunities for computing researchers to learn how to effectively serve in advisory capacities.
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Second, the recommendations for changes in computing education will help ensure that future computing professionals across industry, not just in research, are better equipped to address ethical and societal concerns. Summary 7
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