Ethics and Information Technology

Papers
(The H4-Index of Ethics and Information Technology is 23. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI191
Military robots should not look like a humans129
AI responsibility gap: not new, inevitable, unproblematic101
Epistemo-ethical constraints on AI-human decision making for diagnostic purposes75
Socially Disruptive Technologies and Conceptual Engineering60
Correction: Beyond transparency and explainability: on the need for adequate and contextualized user guidelines for LLM use55
ChatGPT is incredible (at being average)54
Correction: ChatGPT is bullshit43
The Right to Break the Law? Perfect Enforcement of the Law Using Technology Impedes the Development of Legal Systems39
Disembodied friendship: virtual friends and the tendencies of technologically mediated friendship35
Autonomous weapon systems impact on incidence of armed conflict: rejecting the ‘lower threshold for war argument’35
Conceptualizing understanding in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI): an abilities-based approach34
Why converging technologies need converging international regulation34
Navigating the social dilemma of autonomous systems: normative and applied arguments34
Engineering responsibility31
Responsible guidelines for authorship attribution tasks in NLP29
Legal and ethical implications of autonomous cyber capabilities: a call for retaining human control in cyberspace29
Life after privacy: reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society29
Legal reviews of in situ learning in autonomous weapons29
Tracing app technology: an ethical review in the COVID-19 era and directions for post-COVID-1928
Technology and moral change: the transformation of truth and trust27
Deny, dismiss and downplay: developers’ attitudes towards risk and their role in risk creation in the field of healthcare-AI25
A data-centric approach for ethical and trustworthy AI in journalism24
Technologically mediated encounters with ‘nature’23
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