Laboratory and Network for the Cultural and Ethical Studies of Emerging Technologies
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Guler, B. N., Sun, Y., Shiekh, K., Cao, Y., Ausman, M. C., Sanchez Padilla, V., Asad, T., & Zhu, Q. (2025). Teaching the ethics of AI and robotics to graduate students: A cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural approach. Teaching Ethics, 24(2), 53-68.​
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As artificial intelligence and robotics are increasingly integrated in graduate research and education, graduate students across disciplines need to develop a “technological literacy” in how they work along with the ethical understanding needed to navigate these technologies responsibly. To satisfy this need, the corresponding author has developed a graduate-level course on AI ethics and human-robot interaction (HRI) designed for students from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. The paper offers an overview of the course, detailing its content, institutional context, and the rationale behind its development. It describes the curriculum structure, including key themes and learning objectives, and the pedagogical approaches and assessment methods utilized in the course. The paper concludes with reflections from the instructor on the lessons learned from teaching the course and the experiences gained throughout the learning process.

Who We Are
LANCSET (Laboratory and Network for the Cultural and Ethical Studies of Emerging Technologies) is an interdisciplinary research group at Virginia Tech. ​

Based at Virginia Tech, LANCSET is an open and inclusive laboratory and community of scholars dedicated to exploring technology and engineering through culturally responsive lenses. We explore the role of cultures in shaping the professional formation of socially responsible and globally competent engineers, as well as the ethical development and deployment of critical and emerging technologies such as AI, robotics, and quantum computing. In our research, we examine various levels of cultural concepts, including individual cultural traits, classroom learning environments, professional and discipline-based norms, institutional and organizational cultures, sociocultural metaphors, and cross-cultural and global contexts. We frequently draw on less prominent Western intellectual resources (e.g., pragmatism) and non-Western philosophical traditions (e.g., Confucianism) in our theory-building and empirical inquiry. We employ philosophical and conceptual approaches, as well as interpretive and experimental methods, in our research.


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