Analysis and commentary on applied ethics in many fields by the staff of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
"It is time for the consciences of Catholics and all citizens to examine policies of detention and deportation in light of the demands of love, truth, dignity and justice — and to act."
The questions reporters ask high-level politicians in planned settings are actual decisions. That does not mean ethical pre-review ought not to go into the question framing.
Prediction markets make it easy for people to bet on all kinds of events pertaining to finance, politics, pop culture, and sports. Young people, especially young men, are the most impacted by their surge.
Despite the ethical concerns associated with prediction markets, they’re growing rapidly and that may be, in part, based on the transactional behaviors of our leaders.
Until questions about prediction markets get serious answers, they will keep doing what they do now: dressing up a private benefit in the language of the public good.
Before we embrace prediction markets as harmless fun or even a socially beneficial trend, we might pause to raise a deeper question: What habits are we learning, and fostering, in betting on our collective future? And what kind of people do these markets train us to become?
Prediction markets can sharpen our view of the future. Whether they improve it is a different question entirely.
Guidance for the news media on what to do about Prediction Markets, how to take the next steps.
The media’s use of data from prediction markets requires a second look.
Verdicts rendered against both Meta and Google signal a new reckoning for social media companies and, importantly, represent a failure of leadership.
