Methodology for ethical analysis, scan results of existing ethical codes and guidelines

This report presents a review of three approaches to ethical analysis, ATE, eTA and Future Studies; these are ethical frameworks which were used across several projects on the ethics of new and emerging technologies (eg. ETICA, SHERPA, SIENNA, PANELFIT, REELER) and begins to identify the framework, which will address the three levels of ethical technology analysis (as discussed in ATE), which will be further developed in the following tasks of WP2. It also presents the results of a scan of existing ethical guidelines and frameworks on new and emerging technologies and their socio-economic impacts carried out as part of the TechEthos project. The scan of ethical documents identifies ethical issues associated with our selected socioeconomic impact technologies. The ethical dimensions are expected to provide scope for development and critical reflection of technologies that we anticipate will be developed and deployed in Europe and worldwide in the next five to twenty years. The scan will be used to ensure that the ethics framework and guidelines developed by TechEthos will be relevant and applicable for a wide range of new and emerging technologies. The methodology for the ethical analysis will be broken down into different phases and focus on: (1) ethical codes, (2) ethical frameworks, (3) ethical guidelines. These will be identified and analysed for each of the technology families.