To anticipate future ethical challenges, policymakers need to understand not only which issues are emerging on the horizon, but also which require attention today. Our horizon-scanning activities aim to identify these.
We build on issues identified in trusted input sources from existing horizon-scanning and foresight initiatives, as well as from policy, media, ethics expert networks, and academia. These many sources identify developments across technological, economic, (geo)political, sociocultural, and environmental domains. But these sources do not necessarily discuss the ethical dimension of these developments.
So our horizon-scanning activities aim to highlight a small number of selected issues from these many sources, and to explain why ethical reflection is relevant now for these issues.
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Within the Ethics Advice Mechanism, SAEGE conducts horizon-scanning activities to serve the European Commission and the wider European political community. These activities are distinct from the EGE’s advisory work and do not constrain or predetermine the EGE’s choice of topics, deliberations or advice.