Shaping the Digital Future of ErUM Research: Sustainability & Ethics

Session

Ethics

31 Jul 2025, 09:30

Erholungs-Gesellschaft Aachen 1837

Conveners

Ethics: Invited Talk

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Ethics: Submitted Contributions

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Ethics: Submitted Contributions

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Ethics: Plenary discussion

• Markus Demleitner (Universität Heidelberg)

23. Talk by Prof. Saskia Nagel

31/07/2025, 09:30

25. Atmosphere Ownership

Thomas Kuhr (LMU Munich)

31/07/2025, 10:00

Who owns the atmosphere of the earth? No human can live without the atmosphere. Therefore one can assume that each human owns an indefeasible and equal share of the atmosphere. So I can claim ownership of a fraction of about 1 / 8 billion of the atmosphere. Now if others use my property I have the right charge them for the usage. For a worldwide, annual CO2 emission of 38 billion t this means...

34. Responsible use of tools

Jan Burger

31/07/2025, 11:00

35. Stingy Computing (Vijay Kartik)

Vijay Kartik (DESY)

31/07/2025, 11:15

17. AI-Enhanced ErUM: Four New Epistemic and Ethical Considerations

Thomas Metcalf (Sustainable AI Lab, Institute for Science and Ethics, University of Bonn)

31/07/2025, 11:30

Scientists are already using generative AI in their research (Furze, 2025; Kwon, 2025; Nazir & Wang, 2023). But while there is extensive and ongoing research into the ethics of AI throughout its lifecycle (Coeckelbergh, 2020), and some research about the ethics of AI-related jobs and how certain job tasks might use AI (Chance & Hammersley, n.d.; Gray & Surrey, 2019; Perrigo, 2023; Williams et...

11. Ethical Aspects of Using, Writing, and Distributing Software

Markus Demleitner (Universität Heidelberg, Zentrum für Astronomie)

31/07/2025, 12:00

I will argue why the classical Four Software Freedoms (Use, inspect, improve, share) are much more than utopian dreams of idealists with long beards. On the contrary, in addition to them providing an inclusive social contract fostering software development in a process resembling the scientific process itself, it is also an important ingredient to FAIR software that is sustainable in both...