Issue Policy area 4: value laden governance and biased systems become sources of tension
Summary
The fourth cross-cutting policy area holds three implications for values and ethics: governance structures for emerging technology that carry the human centred, sustainable and democratic commitments of some states becoming a new source of tension because they push away actors with other priorities, biased data and systems producing decisions that entrench exclusion and weaken cohesion and economic potential, and ethics written for a physical world failing to reach digital ones.
Classification
Main topicValues & Lifestyles
Region menusGlobal
Impactscope:global
Time horizon4-10 years (2026-07-26)
Last updated2026-07-29 04:49:52
Evidence 6
- Exploring Change in Geotechnomics Policy Horizons Canada page=17;section=Cross-cutting policy implications / Values and ethics 2025 accessed 2026-07-26
- Exploring Change in Geotechnomics Policy Horizons Canada page=17;section=Cross-cutting policy implications / Values and ethics 2025 accessed 2026-07-26
- Exploring Change in Geotechnomics Policy Horizons Canada page=17;section=Cross-cutting policy implications / Values and ethics 2025 accessed 2026-07-26
- Exploring Change in Geotechnomics Policy Horizons Canada page=17;section=Cross-cutting policy implications / Values and ethics 2025 accessed 2026-07-26
- Exploring Change in Geotechnomics Policy Horizons Canada page=17;section=Cross-cutting policy implications / Values and ethics 2025 accessed 2026-07-26
- Exploring Change in Geotechnomics Policy Horizons Canada page=17;section=Cross-cutting policy implications / Values and ethics 2025 accessed 2026-07-26
Constituent trends 2
Directly linked signals 1
Relation types: constitutes · direct_urgent
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