Some of the more significant ethical risks to ADF members in performing ethically include:
- Abuse of Power
- Normalisation of deviance
- The damaging effects of war
- Moral drift and disengagement
- Ethical relativism
There are 10 Tags under the Ethical Risks banner:
- Responses to ethical failures
- Ethical Case Studies
- Moral courage
- Personal Moral Disengagement & Normalised deviance
- Bystander behaviour
- How to identify ‘at risk’ groups
- Ethical dimensions of operational leadership
- Sub-group ethics (ADF) and victims
- Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Drones and surveillance/strike, and
- Cultural aspects of ethics (on Operations)
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Lead SelfAn Introduction to Moral Injury in DefenceThe difference between an individual who returns from a deployment morally injured, and an individual who returns unharmed, may be defined by whether they can answer the following questions: ‘what do I really believe? Who am I? Where do I belong? What is my purpose?’. Can you answer those questions? Unsurprisingly, ‘knowing thyself’ is not a standardised training package delivered by Defence. Should it be so the ADF can craft efficient personnel encapsulating the totality of fitness: physical, intellectual, moral/ethical, and spiritual?
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Ethics and the Brave New BrainAdvances in neuroscience and AI could revolutionise medicine but they also pose significant ethical and social challenges. If a brain computer interface can allow a blind person to see, or restore speech to those who've lost the ability to communicate, what does this mean for a person's sense of self, personal responsibility or privacy?
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