Anticipatory governance aims to build capacities in foresight, engagement and integration \cite{Guston_2014}.
In the early 2000s, two strands of literature in anticipatory governance began to emerge: 1) public administration and management, and 2) environmental studies and policy \cite{Guston_2014}.
Critics have pointed out that the perspective of anticipatory governance may contribute to the hubris of technoscience \cite{Boenink_2013,Guston_2014}.
Ethics is connected to anticipatory governance of emerging technologies in two ways. Firstly, the foresight exercises try to uncover possible future ethical and social issues related to the technology in question. Ethics is thus the connected to the substance of the foresight. Secondly, there are many ethical questions related to the foresight methods that are used, such as stakeholder participation and the use of power. This is the methodological or meta-level ethical element.