JONATHAN HANKINS
Autore, Speaker

Recent Publications on Artificial Intelligence
European Commission Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence Last week (7 December 2018) saw the release of the Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, The European Council, The Council, The European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. The aim of the Commission’s strategy on Artificial ... Recent Publications on Artificial Intelligence
VIRI, Fourth International Meeting
The fourth international meeting of the Virtual Institute for Responsible Innovation will take place on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th October in Szeged, Hungary, with Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins present on behalf of the Bassetti Foundation. The meeting will be hosted by the First Hungarian Responsible Innovation Association (EMFIE), a non profit organization whose aim ... VIRI, Fourth International Meeting
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 5, Issue 2
The summer brought the release of Issue 2 of Volume 5 of the Journal of responsible innovation. Once again the journal offers a diverse collection of articles and essays with several freely available for download. The journal opens with Second-generation biofuels: exploring imaginaries via deliberative workshops with farmers, by Christopher Groves, Meenakshisundaram Sankar and P. ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Vol 5, Issue 2
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 5, Issue 1
The first issue of Volume 5 of the JRI is a Special Issue entitled Responsible Innovation and Brain Science and includes an open access supplement Roadmap to Gene Drives: Research and Governance Needs in Social, Political, and Ecological Context. This is a large and extremely dense publication, offering a series of research articles, perspectives, a ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 5, Issue 1
Dissident Gardens
Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam is currently hosting an exhibition entitled Dissident Gardens. The exhibition contains multiple installations and events that focus on the struggle between nature and culture, all of which can be experienced until 23 September 2018. More information is available here. The exhibition drew our attention not only because of its relationship ... Dissident Gardens
Glocalism. Beyond Democracy: Innovation As Politics, review of the journal.
The latest edition of the journal Glocalism has just been released, the Bassetti Foundation having participated in the production through its involvement in the editorial process. The issue is titled Beyond Democracy: Innovation As Politics, an argument that as readers will know very much reflects the Foundation’s standpoint. As the editorial points out, at the ... Glocalism. Beyond Democracy: Innovation As Politics, review of the journal.
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 4 Issue 3
Late 2017 saw the publication of the latest issue of the Journal of responsible Innovation. In this post we review the collection of articles. In his editorial Politics of Scientific Reflection, Editor in Chief Erik Fisher addresses the problem of asking scientists to reflect upon a host of normative questions such as the social use ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 4 Issue 3
Celebrating SEEG, Manchester Metropolitan University
On 25 October 2017 Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) held the relaunch of SEEG, its Sustainable and Ethical Enterprise Group, hosted by its Business School. SEEG is a hub of expertise in sustainability and innovation, aiming at promoting cross disciplinary collaboration within a broad sustainability agenda while building and supporting a community of like-minded individuals and ... Celebrating SEEG, Manchester Metropolitan University
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 2
In this the second of two posts we review the second issue of Volume 4 of the JRI. This Special Issue on the relationship between Technology Assessment (TA) and Responsible Innovation (RI) is by far the largest published to date, reflecting the journal’s success in the field and the ever growing influence of the concept ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 2
Journal of Responsible Innovation, Review of Volume 4, part 1
The autumn means the release of issue 2 of Volume 4 of the Taylor and Francis published Journal of Responsible Innovation. In this the first of two posts covering this volume’s publications, we review the articles from issue 1. The journal opens with an editorial by journal Editor in Chief Erik Fisher entitled Responsible innovation ... Journal of Responsible Innovation, Review of Volume 4, part 1
Frankenstein, Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
To celebrate the forthcoming 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s story of science, creation and responsibility, David H. Guston, Ed Finn and Jason Scott Robert offer a version ‘annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all types’, published through The MIT Press. The publication offers both an editors’preface and introduction (written by Charles ... Frankenstein, Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
VIRI Annual Meeting and GET Conference, A Short Report
This year’s VIRI was held in Tempe Arizona between May 15 and 16 to coincide with the Governance of Emerging Technologies Conference the followed in Phoenix. The Foundation was represented by Board Member Ottavia Bassetti and Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Hankins, who attended both events offering readers the following short first hand report on the proceedings ... VIRI Annual Meeting and GET Conference, A Short Report














