Literature Reviews: On Ethics Education and Educational Resources

This page consolidates the extensive research performed in Work Package 2.1 and Work Package 3. It tracks the evolution of ethics from professional codes to modern AI governance and provides a directory of foundational secondary literature.

Key Analysis Pillars

• Historical Evolution: Ethics education in engineering dates back over a century, but the “concrete turn” began in the 1970s with the merger of engineering practice and philosophical inquiry.

• Institutional Mapping: We have mapped the global infrastructure of ethics—including major professional societies like the IEEE and ACM, and specialized institutes dedicated to the “Technological Condition.”

• The 2025 Structural Turn: Recent literature (2025) shifts focus toward Sustainable AI, addressing the energy constraints of digital technologies and the democratic deficits in how AI is governed.

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