Smart technologies encounter more serious ethical and political risks

The key motivation for scientific development comes from people's desire to know and their expectation of improved living conditions. When faced with the unknown natural world, people have a natural imagination to trace their roots. The energy of science is also driven by economic interests, where scientific expertise can create new technological or commercial goods. Government support are key drivers of scientific trends, science is immediately linked to national sovereignty, and science can turn into a technological force for ensuring our security in many areas. Precisely because of the drive for rights and security, smart science and technology also face more serious ethical riskiness and political risk.

Scientific research, as a key social practice activity for the development of human civilization, must be consistent with the core use values and overall goals of people's development and in harmony with the ethical and civilized behavior that people have long established, so teaching and research should be subject to the discipline and specific guidance of some basic ethical principles. The basic ethical principles of scientific research refer to the basic values and ethical principles of academic activities, mainly including the principles of importance and harmlessness, objectivity and public welfare.

The principle of importance and the principle of harmlessness are the basic ethical principles of scientific research, and once scientific research violates these two principles, there is a high risk of breaking into the ethical minefield. The principle of importance means that scientific research must pay attention to the basic rights of citizens such as human dignity, beliefs and privacy protection. The principle of harmlessness means that scientific research must not lead to irreversible harm to oneself, to the development of society, to conditions and to the future. The importance and harmlessness are focused on the mutual understanding and maintenance of the subject of the act.

The principle of objectivity and public interest is the basis of compliance of scientific research subject activities in contemporary society. The principle of objectivity focuses on the fact that the technical results of scientific research should be obtained, published and applied in an objective and unbiased manner, including objectivity in professional knowledge and objectivity in ethics. The significance of research depends not only on the improvement of professional knowledge, but also on the improvement of the public good and socio-economic development through professional knowledge and behavior. Scientific research should always adhere to the principle of objectivity and give priority to the improvement of public welfare.

The rapid development of science and technology will face serious ethical risks. Technology has profoundly changed the relationship between people and nature, people and the environment and their relationship with each other. A new ethical dilemma in the life, green ecology, and condition industries caused by high technology challenges people's inherent ethical standards. For example, cloning technology for improving the quality of human life has a positive effect, but cloning technology is likely to have a subversive impact on our basic professional ethics and life ethics.

Smart technology to human civilization to produce convenient at the same time, but also added to the global environmental problems increasingly more serious, network resources plummeted, the number of people continue to grow and many other difficulties. Researchers need to have a sustainable ecological and environmental protection ethic to govern their personal behavior in scientific research. First, they should pay attention to the fair development trend of all things in nature and heaven and earth, not to be exclusive to people, and to understand the cost of natural environment; second, they should pay great attention to the harmony between nature and social development, and care about the quality of life of human social development.

The political risks encountered in scientific research activities are likely to originate from the relevant industries involved in the security of our country, and may also involve economic development, academic research and political and metallurgical rights and interests of the BoP. A new scientific discovery in the promotion of scientific and technological innovation, technological innovation, and will eventually be accompanied by a global impact on the original technical pattern of interests. The ultimate beneficiaries of the economic benefits, academic prestige, social influence and civil rights obtained through the old technology are those who will use the network resources and hazards they have already grasped in order to block the promotion of the new technology in a political way (under the guise of "academic research" or "national sovereignty"). The marketing of new technological applications, the use of news media to deny them, and the fraud of the general public are examples of the distortion of the Internet by traditional corporate faxes forty years ago. Scientists engaged in defense science research would be at great political risk if they were to leak.