Notre Dame–IBM Technology Ethics Lab
Our mission is to drive ethical and human-centered design, development, deployment, and use of technology.
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Opportunities
Call for Proposals
The overall goal of the Lab’s annual CFP process is to support research that leverages AI to augment human tasks and abilities and to ensure that these collaborations are ethical and beneficial to society at large.
Collaborative Projects
The Collaborative Projects pair ten Notre Dame faculty members and 15 IBM researchers together to study the ethical challenges emerging at the research frontier of large language models.
Graduate Fellows
The Lab has opportunities for multiple Graduate Research Fellows each year. Learn more about the work these Fellows do and the application process for future Fellows.
Stats
- 32 Funded Projects (2024)
- $1,242,000+ Grant Funding Awarded (2024)
- 100+ Total Researchers (2024)
Outcomes
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Article
AI and the Subjective Crisis of Knowledge
Paul Scherz and Luis Vera
Journal of Religious Ethics, June 2025The article addresses the epistemological instability created by AI, and suggests we can address resulting ethical problems by returning to practices of the self that philosophers and theologians have relied on in the past.
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White Paper
Navigating the black box: Operational lenses for AI-enabled drone governance
Demetrius Hernandez, Kaitlin Harris, Tristan Hernandez, and Rich Morales
MIT Science Policy Review, 2025 -
Article
MetricMate: An Interactive Tool for Generating Evaluation Criteria for LLM-as-a-Judge Workflow
Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Charles Chiang, Zichu Wang, Zahra Ashktorab, Michelle Brachman, Werner Geyer, Toby Jia-Jun Li, and Diego Gómez-Zará
CHI WORK, 2025