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Aspects of security-relevant research and related ethical issues are increasingly coming into focus, among other things due to advances in research on artificial intelligence and pandemic pathogens, as well as scientific entanglements with states in which human rights violations and other violations of rule-of-law principles are observed. This is reflected in the fourth Progress Report…

The compliance with ethical principles in security-relevant research receives internationally increasing attention. In particular, aspects of export control and research cooperation with foreign partners are in the focus of German politics and research funding. Security-relevant research risks continue to develop dynamically, for example through new synergies of different disciplines such as research on artificial intelligence,…

The report presents current debates and developments in the field of security-relevant research (Chapters A 2 & A 4). Furthermore, the framework conditions for the funding of security-relevant research by the DFG and the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 are discussed (Chapter A 4). In addition, the status and specific strategies…

This progress report begins with a summary in Chapter A of the developments leading up to the establishment of the Joint Committee on the Handling of Security-Relevant Research by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in November 2014. Chapter B reports on the tasks of the…