Along the way, however, deeper systemic challenges became impossible to ignore. Pressures tied to profit maximization and militarization repeatedly constrained efforts to develop technologies oriented toward public benefit. Ultimately, these tensions led the author to resign in protest from a position as Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark in July 2025.

In this talk, the author reflects on the realities of applying ethics within engineering practice—sharing successes, failures, and hard-earned lessons—and invites discussion on a central question: Is it possible to create ethically informed technologies within today’s financial and geopolitical systems, or do those systems demand more radical forms of resistance?