Please think about your answers to these questions: What is your aim or purpose in life? What would you be willing to suffer or die for? What is the basis for your decisions about right and wrong? Both statistics and ethics have been important in the covid-19 epidemic. Some issues to consider: If you were asked questions by government such as 'How can we predict A-level results?' or 'Should most people be legally required to stay at home?' or 'What is the best policy for vaccination?', would you challenge the questions? How, as a mathematician, or a statistician, would you start to answer them? What do you think are the roles of individuals, organisations and governments? Both in times of epidemics or floods, or in general? There are codes of professional ethics published by ISI, RSS, ASA. https://www.isi-web.org/news-featured/150-ethics-intro How might these be useful in considering whether an AI algorithm, or a statisticial decision support system is biased? As examples, you might consider Higher or A-Level grades, or policies on stop and search. Virtue ethics, deontological (duty-based) ethics, utilitatian ethics and consequentialist ethics are often considered as four main theories. Feminist or care ethics have been proposed, and many USA authors say THE ethical theory concerns autonomy, justice, benevolence. You could consider the Stanford Encylopaedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mill-moral-political/ Do any of these theories have particular appeal for statisticians? Here are some more questions which you can consider. The intention is that you find reasons for different answers, and link those reasons to a statement or theory of ethics. Should novice driver insurance premiums differ by sex? Are defined benefit or defined contribution pensions better? What is the relation between theories of evolution, theories of ethics and declarations of human rights? Most of those here at Warwick would like to discuss topics, and then have a debate. The side of the topic which you will debate will be decided by the toss of a coin.