Better play the positive role of science and technology communities

At present, with the accelerated development of my country's scientific and technological innovation, the increasing number of scientific and technological ethical challenges facing people is increasing, which is urgent to improve the scientific and technological ethical governance system and enhance scientific and technological ethical governance capabilities. In March 2022, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Governance of Scientific and Technological Ethics" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), which clearly proposed to improve the scientific and technological ethical governance system and play the role of scientific and technological social groups. Scientific and technological social groups are scientific and technological workers as the main body, voluntarily composed of scientific communities with non -government and non -profit organization attributes. They are an organic part of the national scientific and technological innovation system and an important support for scientific and technological ethical governance.

As an important carrier of a high -level science and technology worker, technology communities have independent legal person qualifications, flexible organizational networks and rich governance experience, and have a good foundation and unique advantage in scientific and technological ethics governance. Giving full play to the role of science and technology communities in scientific and technological ethics governance is one of the important measures to accelerate the construction of a scientific and technological ethics system with Chinese characteristics, effectively prevent and control science and technology ethics risks, and achieve high -level technology independence and self -reliance. Specifically, scientific and technological communities should find their own positioning in scientific and technological ethics governance, and play a greater role in responding to the ethical issues and challenges brought about by scientific research and development, and the evaluation and specifications of optimizing the professional ethics of science and technology workers.

Play the role of "teaming team" in scientific and technological ethics governance. The "Opinions" clearly requires that "related societies, associations, research associations and other scientific and technological social groups should organize mobilization of scientific and technological personnel to actively participate in scientific and technological ethical governance." As an important bridge and link between the party and the government to contact science and technology workers, technology communities have obvious organizational advantages. At the same time, the strong human resources foundation and flexible network organization structure of science and technology communities can well meet the needs of scientific and technological ethical governance of multi -disciplinary and multi -context. To give full play to the role of the "group team" of science and technology communities, one is to comply with the establishment of a "team" for scientific and technological ethics review. For emerging disciplines or highly integrated disciplines, the scientific and technological community with similar or related science and technology communities can jointly form a scientific and technological ethical censorship consortium, and and with the professional scientific and technological community. Higher universities, research institutes and other cooperatives explore the establishment of regional science and technology ethics review centers. The second is to set up the "team" of scientific and technological ethical risk monitoring and early warning. For example, various scientific and technological associations set up the professional committee of science and technology ethics risk monitoring and early warning of the corresponding disciplines, and closely track the frontiers of the scientific and technological development of this discipline. Social risks and ethical challenges conduct dynamic judgments, and keenly proposed governance countermeasures. The third is to form a "team" of science and technology ethics education and training. Relying on the existing practical experience and channels of vocational education and training of science and technology community, to provide systematic scientific and technological ethical continuity education services for science and technology workers, and to provide special science and technology ethics courses for young students. Make it established the correct concept of scientific and technological ethics.

Play the role of "building standards" in scientific and technological ethics governance. The "Opinions" clearly stated that "formulation and improvement of scientific and technological ethical norms and standards" and "establishing scientific and technological ethics review and regulatory systems." Scientific and technological communities have cross -departmental network tissue characteristics, which can effectively cover science and technology workers in the fields of related discipline research areas and the whole process. They can comprehensively observe, collect and condense related scientific and technological ethics issues, and lay the foundation for formulating governance standards. The first is to further improve the ethical standards of scientific and technological research. Based on the principles of improving human welfare, respect for life power, adherence to fairness and fairness, reasonable control of risks, and maintaining openness and transparency, we will focus on the improvement of cutting -edge research ethical standards for cutting -edge technology such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, quantum information, brain science, and genetic science. The ethical red line of science and technology research tighten the ethical "fence" for the development of science and technology. The second is to formulate standards for scientific and technological ethical governance. Clarify the establishment standards, operating standards, regulatory standards, and service qualification standards as third -party service qualification standards for scientific and technological ethics (review) committees, etc., and form a set of quality control and traceability accountability system with inclusive, diversity, and practical. The third is to formulate the scientific and technological ethical codes of science and technology workers. Focusing on the establishment, experiment, research, release, dissemination and application of scientific and technological workers and their research projects (projects) to formulate ethical management standards. Responsible innovation.

Play the role of "setting up platforms" in scientific and technological ethics governance. Scientific and technological communities are important builders of research and exchange platforms and important promoters of scientific popularization. The first is to optimize the platform of academic research and exchange, focus on the issue of scientific and technological ethics governance, organize professional high -end academic conferences, bring more scientific and technological talents, strengthen the forward -looking research of scientific and technological ethical governance, and promote the exploration and contention of scientific and technological ethical governance ideas. The second is to fully integrate a series of science popularization platform resources such as popular science venues, science popularization bases, popular science publication, and new media science popularization platforms, carry out scientific and technological ethics propaganda for the public, and improve the public's rational understanding of scientific and technological ethics issues. The third is to strengthen the reward and punishment and industry self -discipline mechanism of the academic community, vigorously promote the scientific spirit and scientists' spirit, form a strong professional ethics disciplinary punishment mechanism for scientific and technological workers, and jointly create a good scientific and technological ethical governance ecology.

(Author Unit: School of Public Policy and Management of Xi'an Jiaotong University)

Source: China Social Science Network-Journal of Social Sciences of China

Author: Meng Fanrong Zhang Runqiang

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