Project background
The ethical risks in the industry of the future are related to the ethical issues associated with the activities, operations, and decision-making in an advanced technology environment. This includes areas such as artificial intelligence, autonomous robots, and human-machine collaboration, among others. Concerns encompass the impact of increased system autonomy, the responsible use of artificial intelligence, privacy protection in an increasingly digital world, and the ethical implications of human interaction. The emergence of these disruptive technologies encourage the industry to consider certain ethical issues to ensure that industrial developments, minimizing at the same time potential dangers and respect human well-being.
Presentation: Ethics40 Project
Ethics40 is a project that develops guidelines and tools to support the management of ethical risks in industry, aimed to improve the performance and ethics of industrial systems. The following diagram illustrates the progress of the Ethics40 project, focusing on the development of tools to optimize ethical risk management in the industry of the future. The results are deliverables such as the ETHICS4IF software, along with associated rules and practices.
General objective | The aim of the project is to develop an operational management tool (software prototype) called ETHICS41F (Ethical Risk Assessment and Management for Industry of the Future), consistent with existing regulatory frameworks, enabling any industrial company wishing to do so to identify and manage the ethical risks induced by changes in its organisation, its businesses and technologies at different levels (human, company, society, environment) in the context of Industry of the Future; and to steer and improve the performance of its industrial systems within an ethical framework. | ||
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Scientific areas | Identifying and managing ethical risks | Steering and improving industrial performance within an ethical framework | Designing rules and practices to manage risk |
WP : Working Packages | Deliverables | ||
WP0 | Project coordination, communication and dissemination of results | State of the art: Operational ethics, Ethical risk management methods, Steering improvement in an ethical context | |
WP1 | Identification and management of ethical risks | ||
WP2 | Steering and improving performance within an ethical framework | Specification of a software prototype to identify and manage ethical risks | |
WP3 | Design of rules and practices to manage ethical risks | Rules and practices for managing ethical risks | |
WP4 | Development of the ETHICS4IF software prototype | ETHICS41F software prototype | |
WP5 | Feedback, analysis and forecasting | Feedback on rules and practic | |
The ETHICS40 project is interested in the management of these ethical issues and aims, in partnership with the bearing manufacturer NTN-SNR, to develop a tool called ETHICS4IF (Ethical Risk Assessment and Management for Industry of the Future), allowing the identification and integration of ethical risks in the management and improvement of industrial performance. Intended for actors interacting with industrial systems (operators, managers, etc.), ETHICS4IF will integrate the different points of view related to ethical risks (human, industrial system, company, society, environment). The ethical management rules and practices deduced from the risk analysis will be defined in line with the rules of ethics and in compliance with the laws associated with the use of digital technology. The essential deliverable of the project will be a software prototype encompassing the mentioned aspects, rules and practices deduced from its application by NTN-SNR. Finally, it will iomproveed according to the feedback on the use of the tool beyond the case study.
A strategic committee made up of the members of the project, industrialists who are not competitors of NTN-SNR and a law firm specialising in digital law will supervise the progress of the project. ETHICS40 meets an important need of manufacturers migrating to the Factory of the Future. It will provide the scientific community with a tool that contributes to operationalizing ethics in industrial engineering.