SCISOC 604S
Advancing Responsible Innovation: Ethical and Beneficial Implementation of Emerging Technology
Marc GromanNotable faculty
Senior Advisor for Privacy in the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Obama; the FTC's first Chief Privacy Officer. Source
Description from DukeHub
Emerging technologies are transforming industries, governments, and society, creating opportunities while raising complex ethical, social, and governance challenges. This course examines how organizations and policymakers can foster responsible innovation, ensuring technologies are developed and deployed safely, trustworthily, and for societal benefit. Students analyze real-world cases involving safety, security, transparency, privacy, fairness, accountability, and the distribution of benefits and harms. By course end, students will critically evaluate emerging technologies’ impacts and develop practical, ethically grounded approaches to governing their development and use.
Skills
- policy and lawdescription: "governments" and 1 more
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "ethical"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 18 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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