The Inamori Center aims to:
- Promote research, education, teaching, and practice related to a broad range of ethical issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives
- Support the development of knowledge and ethical perspectives that lead to excellence in business, law, politics, economics, medicine, technology, and all other fields of human activity
- Highlight and support the advancement of local, national, and global leaders who can make the ethical choices needed to protect humankind and the environment
- Facilitate and partner with the university's existing ethics and ethics-related initiatives and programs, as well as with institutions in the larger community
- Pursue goals and objectives from interdisciplinary and global perspectives
- Focus on topics related to ethical leadership, business/corporate ethics, military ethics and peace studies, environmental ethics, and the ethics of emerging technologies (such as artificial intelligence)