PROTOTYPE
ETHICS
Before science and technology transform society, fiction allows us to anticipate their ethical implications—“Ethics Prototyping” is a research project that prototypes the values, norms, and institutions needed for the future, creating a forum where experts and citizens can think together.
OUR PROJECT
OUR PROJECT
We bring ethical knowledge beyond academia. Using fiction as common ground, experts and citizens imagine the same futures and shape the ethics we will need together.
Prototype the ethics of tomorrow, today.
Prototype the ethics of tomorrow, today.
THE PROCESS
THE PROCESS
We envision norms through institutions and institutions through norms. These two perspectives form the basis of our ethics prototypes.
THE APPROACH
THE APPROACH
Fiction serves as a bridge between abstract debate and the realities of society.
our team
Reijiro Yauta
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Kanako Takae
Deputy Director / Hokkaido University
Riku Kono
Graduate School, Keio University
Masashi Takeshita
Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University
Yusuke Nagato
Lecturer, Research Center on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues, Osaka University
Ryuhi Sato
CEO, grubio Inc. / PhD Candidate, School of Life Science and Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo
Rokudo Ningen
Novelist and science fiction writer