Grounded in the university’s Jesuit mission of social justice, the Center for Data, Ethics, and Society focuses on confronting the ethical consequences & controversies of our increasingly data-driven lives and spaces, including unfair algorithmic biases, the uneven impacts of computational decision-making, the privacy threats of ubiquitous surveillance systems, the growth of artificial intelligence and its impacts across society, and corporate social responsibility and accountability.
The Center takes up these concerns through an applied and interdisciplinary approach to research, pedagogy, and engagement with impacted communities, data professionals, and industry. The center is directed by Dr. Michael Zimmer.
The Center for Data, Ethics, and Society is excited to host Dr. Alex Hanna, co-author of , for a book talk event on Monday, October 6 at .
The event is free and open to the public. Details and registration .
The , in partnership with the Center for Data, Ethics, and Society, hosted the 2024 AI Ethics Symposium at ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ on November 21, 2024, featuring , former deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and , associate professor of information science at the University of Colorado Boulder. An overview of the event is .
The Center for Data, Ethics, and Society recently participated in the Global University Summit for the Rome Call for AI Ethics, held on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. The summit was co-organized by the Pontifical Academy for Life, IBM, and Notre Dame and is hosted by the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab.
We recently were at Meta's office in Dublin, Ireland to host a discussion with internet researchers, platforms, and regulators on Data Collection for Internet Researchers under Data Protection Regimes.
The Center is a proud member of the (CITR). Read their 2025 report on the State of Independent Tech Research .
Dr. Zimmer was featured in a into how generative AI has fast‑tracked the ability to create deepfake nude images.
Dr. Zimmer joined President Lovell for a discussion on the impact of artificial intelligence on our lives. Lisetn to "Deep Dive on AI" .
helped analyze 788 data science programs and more than 9,000 course offerings to see how well they align with the ACM’s recommended competencies for data science programs. Marely presented the work at , where she won third place in the Undergraduate Student Research competition. Read about her experience here.
Nidhi Nellore, a 3rd-year PhD student in Computer Science, recently participated in the ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW) in Minneapolis, MN and Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) annual conference in Philadelphia, PA. She shares her experience here.
Thomas Johnson, a recent graduate of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ's Criminal Justice Data Analytics Program, presented at the annual conference of the American Society of Criminology. Read his reflection on the experience here.
