反思、教育、一致性：迈向安全与隐私会议的最佳伦理实践
Reflection, Education, Consistency: Towards Best Ethics Practices At Security And Privacy Conferences
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中文总结 AI 辅助
该研究针对安全与隐私会议的伦理问题，通过分析四大顶级会议伦理政策及20名社区成员访谈，指出伦理教育不足、政策不一致等问题，提出开展全社区协调伦理工作并建立开放伦理维基。
中文摘要 AI 辅助
研究伦理是安全与隐私社区中一个有争议且充满情感的话题，在各类会议和社交媒体上引发了讨论。近年来，一些顶级会议引入了诸如强制伦理章节之类的干预措施，在社区内引发了不同反应。程序委员会主席和指导委员会越来越重视伦理，但关于伦理程序和干预措施的实证验证有限，也没有明确传达的目标。为了支持我们社区的共同理解并指导会议层面的明智决策，我们研究了四大顶级会议过去的伦理政策，并对20名资深和初级社区成员（包括一些前任程序委员会及研究伦理委员会主席）进行了深入的半结构化访谈。在访谈中，我们探讨了伦理程序的原因和目标，讨论了现有的伦理干预措施以及我们团队提出的可能新方法。尽管社区似乎正在朝着已确定的目标发展，即提高伦理意识并防止不道德工作的发表，但我们发现社区内部缺乏伦理教育是在这一事项上取得进一步进展的主要障碍。伦理教育通常被推给大学。受访者还提到了伦理政策复杂性带来的挑战、不同会议之间缺乏一致性以及政策逐年变化的问题。几位参与者警告说，过度监管可能会引发反弹，导致仅停留在合规层面，例如人们转向LLM来生成伦理章节，而非进行深入思考。针对这些问题，我们建议开展全社区协调的伦理指导工作，并通过引入开放伦理维基迈出第一步。
英文摘要
Research ethics is a controversial and emotionally charged topic in the security and privacy community, sparking discussions at conferences and on social media. In recent years, some of the leading conferences have introduced interventions such as mandatory ethics sections, with mixed reactions within the community. Program committee chairs and steering committees increasingly emphasize ethics, yet there is limited empirical validation on ethics procedures and interventions, as well as no explicitly communicated goals. To support a shared understanding in our community and guide informed decisions at the conference level, we examined past ethics policies at the top-four conferences and conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with senior and junior (n=20) community members, including some (former) chairs of program and research ethics committees. In these, we explored reasons for and goals of ethics procedures and discussed existing ethics interventions as well as possible new approaches proposed by our team. While the community appears to be evolving toward the identified goals, i.e., raising ethical awareness and preventing the publication of unethical work, we identified the lack of ethical education within the community itself as a major obstacle to further progress on this matter. Ethical education is often passed to the universities. Interviewees also mentioned challenges with the complexity of ethics policies and the lack of consistency across different conferences, as well as policies changing year-to-year. Several participants warned that over-regulation may lead to backlash, encouraging mere compliance, such as people turning to LLMs for ethics sections rather than undertaking in-depth consideration. In response, we suggest a coordinated, community-wide ethics steering effort and take a first step by introducing an open ethics wiki.
