How to manage ethical issues in the development of science and technology?

 


In today's world, people are enjoying unprecedented technological development dividends, and they are also facing unprecedented technological ethics risks. How to manage the ethical issues in the development of science and technology, and prevent the abuse of science and technology, evil of science and technology, and academic misconduct? It is urgent to improve the scientific and technological ethics governance system, including improving the academic research mechanism of scientific and technological ethics governance, improving the scientific and technological ethics supervision system, and establishing a self-discipline mechanism for scientific and technological personnel.

 

Improve the academic research mechanism of scientific and technological ethics governance

 

Improving the academic research mechanism of scientific and technological ethics governance is an important basis for improving the scientific and technological ethics governance system. Researchers of science and technology ethics need to combine the current situation of high-tech development, pay attention not only to the basic theoretical research of science and technology ethics governance, but also to its application research, and to speed up the construction of a disciplinary system, academic system and discourse system with its own characteristics.

 

Strengthen the construction of scientific and technological ethics research teams. my country's scientific and technological ethics research belongs to an applied branch of ethics research. At present, there are few researchers and the strength is relatively scattered. Some researchers can only make post-event evaluations of science and technology ethics, and it is difficult to provide effective solutions for science and technology ethics governance. In this regard, it is urgent to improve the funding and incentive mechanism for scientific and technological ethics research, organically combine incentives and constraints, and create a good academic and social atmosphere for scientific and technological ethics researchers to boldly innovate and launch high-quality research results. Continuously improve the talent introduction mechanism, attract more ethic workers to participate in scientific and technological ethics research, and strive to build a scientific and technological ethics research team that not only understands technology but also has ethical literacy.

 

Improve the multidisciplinary research collaboration mechanism. Science and technology ethics research covers natural science, engineering technology and other fields, involving philosophy, law, sociology and other majors. With the rapid development of high-tech, scientific and technological ethics research is increasingly showing an interdisciplinary trend. This requires improving the multidisciplinary research collaboration mechanism, strengthening the exchange, dialogue and cooperation between scientific and technological ethics researchers and experts and scholars from other disciplines, brainstorming and pooling their efforts, providing theoretical support for my country's scientific and technological ethics governance decision-making, and providing consultation for practical scientific and technological ethics problem solving. suggestion.

 

Improve the international cooperative research mechanism. Research on scientific and technological ethics governance involves a series of major practical issues such as intellectual property protection, scientific and technological social responsibility, and scientific research behavior norms. To improve the academic research mechanism of science and technology ethics governance in my country, it is necessary to improve the international cooperative research mechanism, strengthen international exchanges, dialogue and cooperation, and learn from the advanced experience of international science and technology ethics governance; 

 

Improve the technology ethics supervision system

 

Improving the scientific and technological ethics supervision system is an important guarantee for the effective implementation of scientific and technological ethics governance. At present, it is necessary to accelerate the construction of a sound and effective scientific and technological ethics supervision system covering the whole society, in order to strengthen ethical supervision, refine relevant laws and regulations and ethical review rules, and regulate various scientific research activities.

 

Establish a guiding mechanism for scientific and technological activities to do good deeds. In today's society, scientific and technological activities have become a wide-ranging social activity, involving natural science, engineering technology and many other fields. Scientific and technological activities in these fields may have ethical issues, which may bring risks or harm to society. To effectively prevent and control risks or hazards, it is necessary to continuously strengthen the supervision of science and technology ethics, establish a guiding mechanism for science and technology activities to do good deeds, provide scientific and technological activities with value guidance that is conducive to promoting social progress and human development, and promote scientific and technological personnel to establish correct ethics and technology. view, and strengthen the responsibility and responsibility to the society.

 

Establish a scientific and technological ethics standard system. In order to carry out scientific research activities in a proper and orderly manner, and to prevent the use of science and technology for evil, it is necessary to establish a scientific and technological ethics norm system, including a scientific and technological ethics rules system and a supervision system to ensure its implementation. Generally speaking, scientific and technological activities mainly include topics such as topic selection, planning, research, and experiments. It is the basic task of scientific and technological ethics governance to effectively regulate each link on the basis of scientific and technological ethics norms. To improve the scientific and technological ethics supervision system, it is necessary to track and supervise the whole process of scientific research activities in accordance with the scientific and technological ethics norms, to discover and correct various scientific and technological ethics problems, to punish academic misconduct, and to guard against impetuousness. For example, "deep forgery" based on technologies such as face recognition and voice recognition cannot be prevented, and legal norms for technological development must be strengthened.

 

Improve scientific and technological ethics supervision procedures. To improve the scientific and technological ethics supervision system, it is necessary to improve both the supervision rules and the supervision procedures, so that there is no dead angle in the supervision field and the supervision process is organically connected. To effectively manage scientific and technological misconduct and control scientific and technological risks within a socially acceptable range, it is necessary to continuously improve the scientific and technological ethics supervision system and rule system, strengthen the horizontal connection of regulatory agencies, and expand the coverage of supervision. At the same time, improve the scientific and technological ethics supervision procedures, and make the supervision process rational and well-founded through open and transparent rules-making, trial and approval, and monitoring procedures. Adhere to ethics first, establish "adaptive governance" based on the principle of prevention, and continuously improve the assessment and supervision of scientific and technological ethical risks.

 

Form a synergy of scientific and technological ethics supervision. In order to improve the scientific and technological ethics supervision system, it is urgent to realize the institutionalization of scientific and technological ethics governance and the responsibility of supervisory subjects, so as to promote each subject to perform their own duties, cooperate closely, and coordinately promote scientific and technological ethics governance. Ethical governance of science and technology is a kind of social governance, which not only needs to increase the intensity of government supervision, but also needs to give full play to the role of relevant social organizations. Give full play to the planning, guidance and supervision functions of the National Science and Technology Ethics Committee, promote the establishment of science and technology ethics committees by scientific research units and related enterprises, and focus on giving full play to the role of associations at all levels and various professional societies or associations in science and technology, so as to form a joint force in the supervision of science and technology ethics .

 

Establish a self-discipline mechanism for scientific and technological personnel

 

To prevent the misuse of technology and other possible risks or harms, it is urgent to establish a self-discipline mechanism for scientific and technological personnel.

 

Increase self-discipline. Guiding scientific and technological personnel to strengthen moral cultivation, improve moral quality, and promote the internalization of scientific and technological ethics in the heart and the externalization of science and technology ethics is an important focus of scientific and technological ethics governance. Moral quality includes correct moral view, good moral character, noble moral emotion and proper moral behavior. Only by becoming virtuous people first can scientific and technological personnel become virtuous scientific and technological personnel; only by continuously enhancing their self-discipline awareness can they "do not violate the rules" in scientific and technological activities. If there is a lack of self-discipline, scientific and technological personnel may violate the law or even violate the law without supervision. With self-discipline, scientific and technological personnel can consciously abide by scientific and technological ethics and scientific research norms, sit on the "cold bench", endure loneliness, withstand temptation, and keep the bottom line, and truly unify life, work, and knowledge. Therefore, scientific and technological ethics governance needs to be organically combined with moral education, and efforts should be made to improve the consciousness of scientific and technological personnel's moral cultivation.

 

Establish a correct view of science and technology. Values ​​are an important factor in determining what kind of person a person becomes, and the scientific and technological views of scientific and technological personnel are an important embodiment of their values. The premise of scientific and technological personnel possessing due moral quality is to establish a scientific and technological concept that reflects social moral norms and moral ideals. The correct concept of science and technology can be understood as the "dao" of scientific and technological personnel, and the moral quality can be regarded as "virtue". Under the guidance of the correct concept of science and technology, while feeling honored and proud of their profession, scientists and technicians need to respect and cherish their profession, consciously integrate scientific and technological ethics into their work, and be enthusiastic about starting a business.

 

Create a good atmosphere. The establishment of the self-discipline mechanism of scientific and technological personnel mainly depends on the scientific and technological personnel as the main body of scientific and technological activities, and cannot do without the role of scientific and technological units and related organizations. All kinds of scientific and technological societies and associations need to strengthen the education and training of scientific and technological personnel on the correct scientific and technological concept, scientific and technological ethics and moral quality, and make them standardized and institutionalized. All relevant units and organizations need to improve the incentive mechanism, take the moral quality and scientific and technological ethics performance of scientific and technological personnel as an important condition for applying for scientific research projects, talent projects, and award projects, and create a good atmosphere in the scientific and technological circles to promote good and suppress evil, and eliminate evil for good. , encourage and support scientific and technological personnel to pursue the unity of truth and value, the unity of regularity and purpose in scientific and technological activities, and firmly hold the bottom line of scientific and technological ethics.






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